Stephanie Kukora is a neonatologist and bioethicist at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, where she serves as core faculty in Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics. Her research interests include parent/clinician communication and shared decision-making in antenatal consultation, as well as tracheostomy and other goals-of-care decisions. She conducts global health work in neonatology with partners at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, and collaborates on capacity building in clinical pediatric bioethics with her Ethiopian Colleagues. She also does work on education of medical trainees with advanced communication skills using improv theater exercises.