Malathi Balasundaram, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford School of Medicine and an Attending Neonatologist at El Camino Health, Community Level III NICU where she serves as the NICU Family-Centered Care Committee Chair. She completed her Fellowship at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and has been working at El Camino Health in their Community Level III NICU since 2015 where she has successfully implemented comprehensive Family-Centered Care. Her passion is to provide safe and quality neonatal care in a family integrated NICU setting, not only locally at El Camino Health, but in NICUs across the globe. She spearheaded and formed the international Family-Centered Care Taskforce by partnering with Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists (TECaN), and recruiting mentors, speakers, and Family Partners of diverse backgrounds and serves as Co-Chair. She is a Chair in statewide California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative’s (CPQCC) Perinatal Quality Improvement Executive (PQIP) Quality Infrastructure Committee (QII) and a member of the PQIP Executive Panel.