Bio
Janene H. Fuerch, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neonatology at Stanford University Medical Center, as well as an innovator, educator, researcher and physician entrepreneur. She has an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Brown University and a medical degree from the Jacobs School of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo. At Stanford University she completed a pediatrics residency, neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship and the Byers Center for Biodesign Innovation Fellowship.
She is the Assistant Director of the Stanford Biodesign Faculty Innovation Fellowship, Assistant Director for the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium funded by the FDA and core faculty at the Center for Pediatric and Perinatal Education or CAPE (a specialized simulation center at Stanford). Janene conducts simulation and debriefing training programs for international audiences and has developed the first on-line debriefing curriculum. She is also the co-founder of Emme - a women’s reproductive health company. Her research focuses on the following areas: utilization of a simulated environment to develop and test neonatal medical devices, neonatal resuscitation, human factors and debriefing. Janene is passionate about improving the health of women and children through medical device innovation and research.
