Our Team

Naomi Tricot Laventhal, MD, MA, HEC-C, FAAP - Director

Clinical Professor

Service Chief – Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Associate Chair for Career Development – Pediatrics

Faculty Ethicist – Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine

University of Michigan

naomilav@med.umich.edu

Dr. Naomi T. Laventhal joined the University of Michigan in August 2009, after completing her residency in pediatrics, fellowships in neonatology and clinical medical ethics, and a master’s degree in public policy at the University of Chicago. She is a Clinical Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics. She is the Director of the Neonatal Ethics Lab and a clinical ethicist at CBSSM. She cares for critically ill neonates in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and is Service Chief for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. The focus of her scholarly work is on prenatal counseling and complex care coordination for infants with complex congenital anomalies, and perinatal decision-making for infants born at the margin of gestational viability. Her research interests are in neonatal bioethics and clinical research ethics, and her current work focuses on the prognostic value of healthcare providers’ predictions of neonatal outcomes. These areas are also the focus of her teaching activities to students, medical trainees, and faculty throughout the University of Michigan campus. She serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics. 

Marin Arnolds, MD - Neonatology - Co-Director

Clinical Assistant Professor

Program Director - Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship

Faculty Ethicist – Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine

University of Michigan

Co - Director - Neonatology Prenatal Consultation Program

University of Michigan

Dr. Marin Arnolds is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Michigan Medicine. She completed her medical degree at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, followed by residency training in Pediatrics at Northwestern University and a Neonatal-Perinatal medicine fellowship at the University of Chicago. During her time at University of Chicago, she completed a fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics from the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. 

Dr. Arnolds’ academic interests include ethical questions surrounding neonates born at the margin of gestational viability, as well as parental communication in the NICU. Her current projects involve mixed methods research to improve communication and shared decision-making during antenatal consultation for threatened extremely preterm birth and fetal anomalies.

Erica Andrist, MD, MBE, FAAP - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Clinical Assistant Professor

Erica Andrist is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, followed by residency in categorical pediatrics at Children's Hospital Oakland (now UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at Oakland) and critical care fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center. Early in her faculty career, she earned a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School, where her capstone work focused on the clinician's duty of care and the ethics of quitting for health care providers. Her interests in clinical ethics center on optimizing shared and unshared decision-making at the end of life, particularly when decision-making involves the withdrawal of life-sustaining technologies.

Katie Baughman, MD, MA - Neonatology

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Katie Baughman is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Baughman is a Michigan native and attended the University of Michigan for her undergraduate degree in biochemistry. She then completed her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Michigan. Dr. Baughman completed her neonatal-perinatal fellowship training at Children's Wisconsin through the Medical College of Wisconsin. During her fellowship, she also obtained her Master of Arts degree in bioethics at the Medical college of Wisconsin. Dr. Baughman's academic interests include the intersections of bioethics and neonatology, particularly involving family communications and shared decision-making both in the antenatal and postnatal periods. 

Jacqueline "Beanie" Meadow, MD - Neonatology

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Jacqueline Meadow is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She attended medical school at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and did her Neonatal-Perinatal medicine fellowship at Northwestern University. During her NICU fellowship, she also completed a fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics from the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Meadow’s academic interests include ethical questions surrounding neonates born at the margin of gestational viability, specifically the variability among neonatologists in their thresholds to consider withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies.