Dr. Cristina Arribas Sánchez has dedicated her professional career to the care of the newborn with pathology. She is a specialist in the management of the premature newborn, neonatal CPR and in the approach to the protective factors of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight newborns. She has worked as a specialist in Neonatology in different hospitals in Spain and the United States.

She combines her clinical work with research, collaborating in different clinical trials such as "Definition of serum creatinine values in healthy neonates and in NICU: importance for the classification of acute kidney injury or high frequency oscillatory mechanical ventilation with high frequencies as a strategy for lung protection in respiratory distress syndrome in newborn piglets".

• Neonatology specialist at the University Hospital Gregorio Marañón
• Neonatology specialist at the University Hospital of Getafe
• Principal investigator in the Observatory of Unintentional Injuries of the RiSEUP network of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Degree in Medicine from the University of Salamanca
• Specialist in Pediatrics and its Specific Areas with subspecialty in Neonatology at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital
• Training stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nationwide Children's Hospital in the United States
• Master's Degree in Neonatology from the Spanish Society of Neonatology at the Catholic University of Valencia
• Postgraduate Diploma in Care of the Premature Newborn