Guest Opinion by Beverly Hansen, RN, MBA | Founder & CEO, Clinical Brainiacs (Birmingham, AL) | clinicalbrainiacs.org
Alabama has a long tradition of producing voices that change the national and global conversation. Today, a Birmingham-based nonprofit is adding a new one: a campaign to protect the brains of the world’s babies from a device sitting quietly in millions of nurseries, trusted by exhausted parents everywhere, and regulated by virtually no one.
I am Beverly Hansen, a registered nurse with over 40 years in clinical care, acute medicine, behavioral health, neuroscience-based brain coaching, and healthcare strategy. But the journey that led me here did not begin in a clinic or a research library. It began in my own family’s home, watching my grandson…