James Barry MD, MBA has been a neonatologist for 26 years and is now Chief Clinical Quality and Transformation Officer for Pediatrix Medical Group. He has held various leadership positions that have focused on improving the processes and the safety of care to support better outcomes for staff, patients, and families in the Neonatal ICU, with his longest tenure as medical director of the University of Colorado Hospital NICU for 18 years. He has co-founded 2 national organizations, 1) Clinical Leaders Group of the Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine of the AAP to support the development of medical and quality directors in the U.S. that currently has >700 active members, 2) NeoMINDAI, a collaborative of neonatologists, pediatric- focused clinicians, data scientists, and clinical informaticists focused on applying and evaluating artificial intelligence in Pediatric healthcare to ensure it is safe, effective, and equitable.