Bio
Dr. Balasundaram finished her fellowship at the University of California San Diego and joined the Stanford neonatology group in 2015. She is the El Camino Health NICU Family-Centered Care committee chair and actively leads different subcommittees to improve NICU quality goals. Her passion is to provide safe and quality neonatal care in a family-integrated NICU in her local NICU and other NICUs. She formed the International FCC Taskforce, partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics - Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists (TECaN) by recruiting passionate trainees, neonatologists, staff, and family partners. The FCC Taskforce stands as a pioneering force, being the FIRST international, multicenter, collaborative initiative solely dedicated to quality improvement in family-centered care. She received the 2022 David Wirtschafter Award for building a comprehensive family-centered program. The award is given to individual leaders or NICU quality improvement teams whose contributions impact their unit and the larger neonatal community by the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) and the California Association of Neonatologists (CAN). She has been the statewide CPQCC and a Perinatal Quality Improvement Executive Panel (PQIP) volunteer member since the second year of her fellowship.
