{"id":20633,"date":"2025-04-11T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpfch.org\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:20:18","slug":"remembering-dr-philip-sunshine-94-a-founding-father-of-neonatology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lpfch.org\/zh\/impact-stories\/remembering-dr-philip-sunshine-94-a-founding-father-of-neonatology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7f05\u6000\u83f2\u5229\u666e\u00b7\u6851\u6c99\u56e0\u533b\u751f\uff0c94\u5c81\uff1a\u65b0\u751f\u513f\u5b66\u4e4b\u7236"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Philip Sunshine\u2014a pioneer in neonatology and beloved clinician, teacher, father, husband, and friend\u2014has passed away at the age of 94. He was vibrant, sharp, and present until the end of his life, retiring at 92 and remaining deeply engaged with his Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital Stanford community until his death. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Learn more about his remarkable legacy below\u2014and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lpfch.org\/sunshine\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">consider making a gift<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to continue to advance Dr. Sunshine\u2019s work to create a brighter future for the most vulnerable newborns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Honoring Dr. Philip Sunshine: A Pioneer in Neonatology\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3MoOd9_KAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A career that spanned 66 years\u2014and revolutionized care for premature and critically ill babies<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/philip-sunshine\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Philip Sunshine<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, arrived at Stanford as a resident in 1956, neonatology as a medical specialty didn\u2019t exist. Health insurance companies didn\u2019t cover most newborn care. At that time, more than half of premature infants died.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the ensuing decades, Sunshine built a career that spans the entire history of his academic field. He was a legend of neonatology who used his scientific acumen, clinical expertise and extraordinary talent for collaboration to improve the care of sick and premature newborns everywhere, his colleagues say. He contributed to some of the biggest advances in the field, including putting newborns with breathing problems on ventilators, welcoming parents to their infants\u2019 bedsides in the neonatal intensive care unit, and bringing obstetric and neonatal care under one roof at Stanford, a change that fostered major advances in maternal-fetal medicine.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe was one of the most selfless leaders I know. His work was all about putting others forward, always,\u201d said neonatologist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/susan-hintz\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Susan Hintz<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, professor of pediatrics and one of many Stanford Medicine leaders Sunshine helped train. \u201cPhil was a force of nature. It was through his dedication and strength of will that neonatology was built at Stanford.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Even after Sunshine transitioned to emeritus faculty status in 2001, stepping back from the many leadership roles he held at Stanford, he continued to work as an attending physician in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanfordchildrens.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital Stanford<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanfordchildrens.org\/en\/service\/neonatology\/intermediate-care-nursery\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">intermediate care nursery<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. There, he has been beloved by families whose infants graduated from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanfordchildrens.org\/en\/service\/neonatology\/neonatal-intensive-care-unit\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">neonatal intensive care<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202fand were preparing to go home.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe was really down to earth and practical, and he easily gained people\u2019s trust,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/david-stevenson\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">David Stevenson<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for maternal and child health, whose talents Sunshine spotted and fostered early. \u201cFamilies trusted him the same way they would trust their father or grandfather.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cecele Quaintance, who came to Stanford as a neonatal nurse in 1967 and worked with Sunshine for more than 50 years, said, \u201cThere was this deep kindness in Phil \u2014 to babies, to us, to everybody. Everybody had the same level of importance to him.\u201d Quaintance\u2019s career at Stanford included a variety of leadership roles, including serving as the first program manager for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpqcc.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. She considered Sunshine a mentor.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With his trademark cheerful humility, Sunshine, who retired in August 2022 from providing clinical care through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanfordchildrens.org\/en\/service\/pregnancy-newborn\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, said he stuck in families\u2019 memories because, \u201cDr. Sunshine is the easiest name to remember.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But his colleagues say there was more to him and his legacy than that.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI\u2019ve watched families cry when he was going off service because they were so attached to him,\u201d Quaintance said. \u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"component component-cta impact-story-cta full-width-cta  no-image scheme-red\" >\n  <div class=\"module-container\">\n    <div class=\"component-cta-container\">\n      <div class=\"component-cta-wrapper\">\n        <h2 class=\"component-cta-title\">\n          Honoring Dr. Sunshine\n        <\/h2>\n\n                  <p class=\"component-cta-description\">\n            Gifts made in honor of Dr. Sunshine will support neonatology programs at  Stanford  Medicine Children's Health, as designated by his family.\n          <\/p>\n        \n        <div class=\"component-cta-buttons\">\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/my.supportlpch.org\/campaign\/679964\/donate\"\n       class=\"component-cta-button btn btn-white\"      title=\"Make a Gift\" >\n      Make a Gift\n  \n  <\/a>\n                        \n                              <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Growing the field<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After his first year of residency at Stanford, Sunshine was drafted and served two years in the U.S. Navy. When he returned in 1959, the School of Medicine had moved from San Francisco to Palo Alto, and the field of neonatology \u2014 named that year \u2014 was poised for huge changes. Pioneering neonatologist Lou Gluck, MD, was running Stanford\u2019s newborn nursery, Sunshine recalled.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe turned me on to caring for newborns and made everything sound so interesting,\u201d Sunshine said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After completing his training in pediatric gastroenterology, a path he chose because it wasn\u2019t yet possible to formally train as a neonatologist, Sunshine joined Stanford to direct the pediatric gastroenterology program. But advances in infant care kept drawing him to the nurseries. Around this time, a Stanford physician named Joe Daily invented the first apnea monitor to detect when a baby stopped breathing. And in 1962, two other Stanford physicians were among the first in the U.S. to put a newborn who was struggling to breathe on a ventilator.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sunshine was on the team that refined neonatal ventilation techniques, sometimes by capitalizing on things that went serendipitously wrong with the equipment. For instance, one nursery ventilator had a sticky valve, which provided a longer inspiratory time and more appropriate air pressure. This, the team soon realized, improved the infant\u2019s ability to exchange air and helped babies get better faster.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis was a very exciting time,\u201d said Sunshine, who took over as Stanford\u2019s director of neonatology in 1967. \u201cPeople with various backgrounds were bringing their skills to the care of newborns: pulmonologists, cardiologists, people like me who were interested in GI problems of newborns. I picked up a lot of information and enthusiasm from them and we had many opportunities to change how babies were cared for.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Through the 1960s and 70s, Sunshine developed ways to improve how newborns were fed, focusing his research on the metabolic complications of intravenous feeding of infants. He also diagnosed the first case recognized in the U.S. of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, a rare metabolic disorder, and figured out how acute gastroenteritis causes malabsorption of lactose, the sugar in milk.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe did the original work that helped us design different formulations for infant feeding that we all take for granted today,\u201d Stevenson said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Sunshine\u2019s pioneering nutrition work took another leap forward last month, with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lpfch.org\/impact-stories\/how-ai-can-improve-nutrition-for-premature-babies\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">application of artificial intelligence<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Using\u00a0 information in preemies\u2019 electronic medical records, an algorithm was able to predict which nutrients they need and in what quantities\u2014work that could \u202freduce medical errors, save time and money, and make it easier to care for premature babies in low-resource settings.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Parents in the nursery<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One important advance emerged through the empathy of nurses for a mother\u2019s worries about her very sick newborn. It was the mid-1960s and parents were not allowed into the hospital nursery. Nevertheless, this mother, whose husband was a Stanford radiology resident, came to the hospital every evening. As her husband completed his patient charts, she \u201cwould sit outside the nursery, looking in at her baby,\u201d Sunshine recalled. \u201cIt made the nurses very uncomfortable.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The mother\u2019s longing prompted the medical team to let parents into the nursery, marking the beginning of neonatology\u2019s emphasis on family-centered care.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Stanford team published the first research on the change, revealing that allowing parents to be with their babies, which parents preferred, did not cause infection rates to increase. Bringing parents into the nursery also shifted the relationships between physicians and nurses. Nurses began noticing, for instance, that families sometimes needed better explanations of medical matters than they received from the doctors. Sunshine helped establish doctor-nurse sessions to talk about how to address such problems.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe nurses were emboldened to tell us what we were doing wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was difficult to understand initially, but it made the physicians and nursing staff bond so tightly, and that has continued throughout my career.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Key relationships<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sunshine was known for nurturing the careers of other physicians, starting with Stevenson and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/ronald-ariagno\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ronald Ariagno<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, now a professor of pediatrics, emeritus, both of whom he hired in the 1970s. The three doctors each took monthlong turns as the nurseries\u2019 attending physician for several years. They were eventually joined by other Sunshine prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/william-benitz\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bill Benitz<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, who is now the Philip Sunshine, MD, Professor in Neonatology, Emeritus; gastroenterologist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/john-kerner\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">John Kerner<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, professor of pediatrics; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/william-rhine\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bill Rhine<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, professor of pediatrics; Hintz; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/valerie-chock\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Valerie Chock<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, MD, associate professor of pediatrics.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As neonatal care advanced, Sunshine traveled to Central California hospitals to hold case conferences to discuss challenges in babies\u2019 care and share best practices. In the process, he developed a network of friendships that evolved into what is now the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccpop.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Mid-Coastal California Perinatal Outreach Program<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Its popular academic conference, which Sunshine organized for many years, is still held annually in Monterey, California.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhen we went on transports [to bring sick babies to Stanford], it was very unusual for there not to be someone at the other hospital that we already knew,\u201d Quaintance said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Back at Stanford, when the Packard family donated money in the mid-1980s to build what is now the West building of Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital Stanford, Sunshine encouraged the planning committee to locate obstetric services and the newborn nurseries in the new facility.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As he described specific needs in one meeting, he said, \u201cMrs. Packard looked at me and said, \u2018How many more beds are you talking about?\u2019 I told her 30 postpartum beds, 18-20 labor and delivery room beds and two units for C-sections. She said, \u2018Oh my!\u2019 and I figured, we\u2019re lost.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But Lucile Packard had recently spent time with her twin newborn grandchildren in the neonatal intensive care unit at Stanford, where Stevenson and Sunshine had cared for them. While there, Packard came to embrace the philosophy of moms and babies being under one roof, so she talked to her husband, David, about increasing their donation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At a subsequent meeting with then-chair of the Department of Pediatrics Irving Schulman, MD, and the hospital\u2019s architect, Sunshine recalled, \u201cMrs. Packard said, \u2018Tell me about the perinatal unit. We\u2019ve got to do that \u2014 keep mothers and babies together.\u2019 They were up until 2 a.m. figuring out how to do this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stevenson, who was also involved in the planning, said, \u201cWhen Mrs. Packard asked for babies to be cared for in our hospital, all of a sudden everybody was in agreement.\u201d The new building opened in 1991 with the facilities Sunshine had recommended.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thirty-four years later, the hospital is in another moment of transformation with the reimagining of this historic space for mothers and babies. In late February, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lpfch.org\/impact-stories\/now-open-private-rooms-for-our-tiniest-patients\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">we welcomed patients to our first-ever private NICUs<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2014soon after, Dr. Sunshine returned to the hospital to see them. He was thrilled, calling the Axe and Blaise Wanstrath Neonatal Intensive Care Unit \u201ca gamechanger\u201d for families in our community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sunshine said resulting close collaboration between obstetrics and neonatology allowed the teams to advance care for extremely complex pregnancies and fostered advances in maternal-fetal medicine, a specialty in which Stanford still leads the nation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stevenson and Sunshine also were the original editors of\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury,\u202f<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the first comprehensive text on the topic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sunshine, Hintz said, was also especially adept at recruiting \u201cbig names\u201d to contribute to the textbook, which first published in 1989 and is now in its fifth edition. \u201cHe had a vision for how this could come together to create a unique and valuable text, and so many people loved Phil Sunshine that nobody could say no to him.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Leading with kindness<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But Sunshine\u2019s kindness is what most stands out for Hintz, who described him as the \u201cmoral compass of neonatology\u201d for his ability to communicate honestly with families about a child\u2019s health, regardless of whether the news is challenging, encouraging or a mix.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOne phrase I heard Phil utter for years, when we were all in the weeds, questioning this measurement or that lab, is to say, \u2018Step back. What is the best path for the baby and family?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The kindness also extended to colleagues. \u201cMy wife still remembers a time I was out of town at a scientific meeting and everyone in our family got sick with vomiting and diarrhea,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cPhil came over with one of our secretaries and took care of everybody while I tried to find a flight to get home ASAP. That\u2019s the way Phil was \u2014 \u2018family\u2019 went beyond his own family and included us.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sunshine said those connections fed his enthusiasm for the long hours of work at the frontiers of medicine and sustained him in retirement as he spent more time with his wife, Beth, their five children and nine grandchildren, along with their gigantic network of friends and colleagues. His colleagues across the country have recognized him with such honors as the Virginia Apgar Award, which he received from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2001, and a Legends of Neonatology award given in 2015.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI\u2019ve just been so lucky being able to work with really bright people who were enthusiastic, doing wonderful things, and I got credit for it,\u201d he said with a chuckle. Physicians, nurses and \u201cbrilliant\u201d Stanford medical students all kept him going.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That, and the satisfaction of knowing how far his field moved. When he started, more than half of premature babies died. Today, more than 90% survive.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI used to love to get up in the morning and come to work, knowing every day would be a different, exciting day,\u201d he said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.supportlpch.org\/campaign\/679964\/donate\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Make a gift in honor of Dr. Philip Sunshine<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to support the future of neonatology at Stanford Medicine Children\u2019s Health. 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