Speaker
Dr. Stina Klemming
Lund-Malmö NIDCAP Training and Research Center, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden
Biography :
Stina Klemming, MD, neonatologist, Co-Director and NIDCAP Trainer for the Lund-Malmö NIDCAP Training and Research Center, Sweden. She chairs the organizing committee for the Swedish Conference on Ultra-Early Intervention since 2018. Dr. Klemming worked at the Astrid Lindgrens Children’s Hospital and the Karolinska NICU for 20 years, between 2002 and 2022. She was Director of the Karolinska NIDCAP Training and Research Center 2018 to 2021. Dr. Klemming is active in the research group for the randomized clinical trial Immediate Parent Infant Skin-TO-Skin Study (IPISTOSS). Dr. Klemming is promoting Infant- and Family-Centered Developmental Care (IFCDC) according to the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) on a national and international level. She chairs the IFCDC group within the Swedish Neonatal Society. The concept of care “mother-newborn couplet care” is one of Dr. Klemming’s special interests and competencies. Together with a colleague neonatologist, Sofia Arwehed, she chaired a group assigned from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions that in September 2024 published national guidelines on the initial uninterrupted or immediate and continuous skin-to-skin contact and mother-newborn couplet care for zero separation.
