Robert Stavis

Dr. Stavis graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. He trained in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and in Neonatology at New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. He founded the NICU at Bryn Mawr Hospital in 1981, the first community hospital-based Level III NICU in the Philadelphia region. He developed intensive educational and service outreach programs, and was the first in the region to integrate NNPs into clinical practice. His group ultimately expanded to nine physicians and nine NNPs covering two Level III and one Level II NICUs. He currently serves as the Clinical Director of the NICUs and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of Main Line Health. Dr. Stavis has a range of clinical interests from bioethics to neonatal screening to liquid ventilation. He has always tried to make technology work for neonates. Although he did not have an IT background, he saw the need for systematic data collection in the NICU and began work on Crib Notes™ in 1991. The NICUs that he directed have been essentially paperless since the mid-1990s. Based on the belief that hospitals would acquire systems specifically designed for the NICU only if the system could be commercially supported, Dr. Stavis founded Grand Rounds™ Software to make Crib Notes™ available for neonatology physicians, nurses and other team members across the country.