Research Faculty

Dara Brodsky, MD

 

Department Newborn Medicine
Hospital Title Assistant in Medicine
Academic Title Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Phone 617-667-3276
Fax 617-667-7040
Email Dara Brodsky
Location Rose 3, BIDMC Dept of Neonatology

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.

About Dara Brodsky

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.

Key Publications

  • Brodsky D and Martin C.  Neonatology Review. 2nd edition. Lulu.com. 2010. 
  • Brodsky D and Ouellette MA. Primary Care of the Premature Infant. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2007. 
  • Newman LR, Brodsky D, Roberts DH, Pelletier SR, Johansson A, Vollmer CM, Atkins KM.  Developing expert-derived rating standards for the peer assessment of lectures.  Acad Med. 2012;87:356-363