Research Overview

My research focus is to examine the impact of educational programs that I’ve instituted. I am also interested in guiding others about using evaluational tools that I’ve co-created.

Research Background

Dara Brodsky, MD is a neonatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), an Associate Director of the BIDMC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Brodsky attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, finished her pediatric residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where she received the Senior Resident Teacher of the Year Award, and then completed her neonatology fellowship training in the Harvard Neonatology Fellowship Program. 

Currently, she is very involved in medical education at HMS and in the Harvard Neonatal Fellowship Program; she recently received the 2010 Merton Bernfield Teaching Award in Neonatology. She is a co-director of the Newborn Medicine Summer Student Research Program at Children’s Hospital, chair of the Neonatology Curriculum Committee for the Harvard Neonatology Fellowship Program, and member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. 

She is co-author of Neonatology Review, the first board review book for neonatology fellows, co-editor of Neonatology Review: Q & A, and co-editor of the textbook Primary Care of the Premature Infant. She serves as an editorial board member of the American Academy of Pediatrics-sponsored organization NeoReviews.

Education

Undergraduate School

Cornell University
1988 Ithaca NY

Medical School

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1992 Bronx NY

Internship

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
1995 New York NY

Residency

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
1995 New York NY

Fellowship

Harvard Medical School
1988 Boston MA

Publications

  1. Two Growth-Restricted Fetuses with Severe Microcephaly and Neurologic Abnormalities. Neoreviews. 2024 May 01; 25(5):e303-e311. View Abstract
  2. Assessment of the clinical knowledge of ChatGPT-4 in neonatal-perinatal medicine: a comparative analysis with ChatGPT-3.5. J Perinatol. 2024 Sep; 44(9):1365-1366. View Abstract
  3. Performance of a Large Language Model on Practice Questions for the Neonatal Board Examination. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 09 01; 177(9):977-979. View Abstract
  4. Fluctuant Mass on an Infant's Scalp. Neoreviews. 2022 08 01; 19(8):e490-e492. View Abstract
  5. Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence. Neoreviews. 2022 02 01; 23(2):e141-e150. View Abstract
  6. The Newest Features and Future Direction of NeoReviews. Neoreviews. 2020 10; 21(10):e639-e640. View Abstract
  7. Current Advances in Neonatal Care. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2019 04; 66(2):xvii-xviii. View Abstract
  8. Peri-mortem evaluation of infants who die without a diagnosis: focus on advances in genomic technology. J Perinatol. 2018 09; 38(9):1125-1134. View Abstract
  9. Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in the Neonatal ICU: Experiences and Beliefs Among Staff. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 07; 19(7):635-642. View Abstract
  10. Fetal Physiology and the Transition to Extrauterine Life. Clin Perinatol. 2016 Sep; 43(3):395-407. View Abstract
  11. Frame-of-Reference Training: Establishing Reliable Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2016; 36(3):206-10. View Abstract
  12. Performance of Gram staining on blood cultures flagged negative by an automated blood culture system. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Aug; 34(8):1539-41. View Abstract
  13. Evaluation of a web-based portal to improve resident education by neonatology fellows. Med Educ Online. 2014; 19:24403. View Abstract
  14. Evaluation of a web-based portal to improve resident education by neonatology fellows. Med Educ Online. 2014 Jan; 19(1):24403. View Abstract
  15. Building collaborative teams in neonatal intensive care. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 May; 22(5):374-82. View Abstract
  16. Neonatal intensive care unit graduate home visit: a learning opportunity for pediatric interns. J Pediatr. 2012 Aug; 161(2):177-8.e1. View Abstract
  17. Developing expert-derived rating standards for the peer assessment of lectures. Acad Med. 2012 Mar; 87(3):356-63. View Abstract
  18. An interdisciplinary, family-focused approach to relational learning in neonatal intensive care. J Perinatol. 2011 Mar; 31(3):212-9. View Abstract
  19. Analysis of enacted difficult conversations in neonatal intensive care. J Perinatol. 2009 Apr; 29(4):310-6. View Abstract
  20. Reflections on love, fear, and specializing in the impossible. J Clin Ethics. 2007; 18(4):373-6. View Abstract
  21. Lung injury and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborn infants. J Intensive Care Med. 2005 Mar-Apr; 20(2):76-87. View Abstract
  22. Current concepts in intrauterine growth restriction. J Intensive Care Med. 2004 Nov-Dec; 19(6):307-19. View Abstract
  23. Hypoxic responses of vascular cells. Chest. 1998 Jul; 114(1 Suppl):25S-28S. View Abstract

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