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Dedicated to Dr. Bill Hay who carried this book through many years with his humility, great expertise, passion, and superb editorial leadership.
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Dr. Bill Hay, now a retired Professor at the University of Colorado, was previously Director of the Child Maternal Health Program, the Early Life Exposures Program, and the Neonatal-Perinatal Clinical Translational Research Center of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He also served as Scientific Director of the Perinatal Research Center. His research focused on maternal nutrition and metabolism, placental nutrient transport and metabolism, fetal physiology, and fetal and neonatal nutrition and metabolism. A major emphasis of his research was on intrauterine growth restriction and how this condition programs fetal and neonatal growth and development. He was continuously funded for this research by National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his entire career. He served on many NIH study sections (three as Chair) as well as President of the Perinatal Research Society, the Western Society for Pediatric Research, and, most importantly, the American Pediatric Society. He also translated his basic research findings into clinical studies of nutrition to the preterm infant, aiming to emulate the nutrition of the normally growing human fetus of the same gestational age. As a PI and Program Director and Research Mentor of the NICHD T32 Training Program in Perinatal Medicine and Biology and Program Director of the Department of Pediatrics NICHD K12 Child Health Research Career Development Program GB assisted in mentoring well over 30 trainees at the fellow and junior faculty level. Having worked in the NICU for 43 years Bill taught countless residents and provided exemplary care for many thousands of infants and their families.
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His expertise in nutrition of the preterm infant was recognized by receiving the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Nutrition Award (now named after Samuel J. Fomon). Bill is also recognized nationally and internationally for his expertise in disorders of glucose metabolism in neonates. He was honored with many lectureships nationally and internationally. His educational accomplishments were noted by awards such as the WSPR Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Education Award. His research and review publications number over 400, including two editions of his own book, Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism.
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Bill joined the Current Diagnosis and Treatment—Pediatrics (CDT-P) editorial team for the 8th edition. Henry Kempe, the original author, encouraged Bill to take this on early in his career. Later, it was Bill Hathaway, who had collaborated on research projects with Marilyn Manco-Johnson and Bill Hay, who got Bill to join the CDT-P editorial team. After Bill Hathaway retired, Bill Hay took over as lead editor, a position he held through the 25th edition, spanning 40 years. Bill had the privilege of collaborating with many truly exceptional editors, including Jessie Groothuis, Myron Levin, Anthony Hayward, Judy Sondheimer, Robin Deterding, Mark Abzug, and most recently Maya Bunik. For Bill Hay, CDT-P was always the banner that he carried and promoted in recognition of Henry Kempe, his first Chair and mentor and remarkable leader in academic pediatrics.