Dr. Jon Palmer is a 1977 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania; board certified in internal medicine and for many years was Chief, Neonatal Intensive Care Service at New Bolton Center. For the past 35 years his clinical practice has been restricted to neonatal/perinatal intensive care with special interests in fetal and neonatal resuscitation.

Dr. Palmer has a reputation as an innovator in caring for the late term fetus and critically ill neonate and has offered insights to many areas of neonatal care including fluid management, ventilator management and successful CPR. He has recently joined the ranks of the emeriti at the University of Pennsylvania.