SAVING Study

Irina Prelipcean, MD

Neonatologist and Neonatal Hemodynamics Specialist, co-PI SAVING

Dr. Prelipcean is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at University of Rochester who cares for sick newborns in the neonatal ICU. She graduated from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine as part of the school’s charter class. She completed her residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital. Her area of academic focus is the improvement of outcomes in critically ill neonates, specifically on the hemodynamics and biomarkers involved in neonatal adrenal and brain dysfunction. She has a special interest in point-of-care ultrasound and targeted echocardiography in the neonatal ICU. Dr. Prelipcean is the co-investigator and local PI (University of Rochester) to the SAVING study.

Rachel Jones

Sr. Human Subjects Research Coordinator

I am originally from California and relocated to Rochester, New York in 2018 where I joined the NICU research team at the Golisano Children’s Hospital as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator. My role in the studies we conduct involves coordinating with various departments during the study start-up phase to assist with the contract and budget creation, obtaining initial IRB approval and coordinating the necessary training for the NICU staff and Providers prior to opening enrollment in the study. Once the study begins, I’m responsible for subject screening and enrollment, coordination of study procedures, data collection and providing continued regulatory support and maintenance for the duration of the study. 

I have four children of my own who are my entire world! Working on the clinical trials in our NICU is a constant reminder of grateful I am to have healthy children and just how important research is for these babies and their families. I absolutely love being apart of the work being done to improve outcomes for the babies both here at our institution and other centers we collaborate with for these studies.

Joseph D. Kuebler, MD, MBA, FAAP, FACC

Pediatric Critical Care and Cardiology

Dr. Kuebler is a pediatric cardiac intensivist with board certifications in both pediatric critical care and pediatric cardiology. He attended medical school at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Kuebler completed his pediatric residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital including a year as a chief resident. He then went on to do a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School including a year of advanced cardiac imaging (TEE, fetal echocardiography and cardiac MRI). Most recently, Dr. Kuebler returned to western NY for a pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center/Golisano Children's Hospital. He is an associate professor of pediatrics in the divisions of pediatric critical care and cardiology and is the medical director of the pediatric cardiac care center. 

Dr. Kuebler's clinical focus is in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit as well as in point-of-care ultrasound, and transthoracic echocardiography. He is the local clinical champion for the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4), a national quality improvement collaborative and is the director of pediatric critical care ultrasound.