Doctor Short is a Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Neonatology at Children’s National Hospital.  She joined the staff of Children’s Hospital in 1980, after completing her pediatric training at the University of Oklahoma and her neonatology subspecialty training at CNH.  In 1984 she with two of her colleagues started the Extracorporeal Life Support (ECMO) Program at CNH.  The CNH ECMO program was the 1^st to be developed at a major children’s hospital and the 7^th program to open in the country.  The clinical program quickly became one of the largest ECMO programs in the nation with a strong research arm under the direction of Dr. Short.  In recognition of this work, she was honored as an inaugural Fellow in the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (FELSO).  She was a member of the Founding Steering Committee for the ELSO organization and was president from 1994-1995.  She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) that has established one of the largest quality outcome databases for complex patients cared for in Neonatal Intensive Care Units based at Children’s Hospitals.  Her research and clinical work are represented by over 190 articles and book chapters in the field of neonatal-perinatal medicine