Edward Bell
Dr Edward Bell is Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa, where he has served on the faculty since 1979. He completed paediatric residency at Babies Hospital in New York City followed by neonatology fellowships at McMaster University and Brown University. Dr Bell served as Director of the Division of Neonatology at Iowa for 17 years before becoming Vice Chair of Pediatrics in 2005. He has conducted research on the care and outcomes of premature infants and has served as principal investigator for the University of Iowa centre in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Dr Bell received the 2002 Humanism in Medicine Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the 2019 Maureen Andrew Mentor Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. In 2000, Dr Bell created the Tiniest Babies Registry, a registry of infants with birth weights below 400 g (14.1 oz) who survived to be discharged home from the hospital. He maintains the registry with the assistance of the College of Medicine IT Application Services team.
Lightest birth
The lowest birthweight recorded for a surviving infant, of which there is definitive evidence, is 212 g (7.48 oz) in the case of Kwek Yu Xuan (Singapore), who was delivered by emergency Caesarian section four months early at the National University Hospital, Singapore, on 9 June 2020 at a gestational age of 24 weeks 6 days. This record was verified and added to the University of Iowa's Tiniest Babies Registry in August 2021.