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Alissa D'Gama | Education

Undergraduate School

Harvard University

2011, Cambridge, MA

Graduate School

Harvard Medical School

2016, Boston, MA

Medical School

Harvard Medical School

2018, Boston, MA

Internship

Pediatrics

Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)

2019, Boston, MA

Residency

Pediatrics

Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)

2020, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program

2024, Boston, MA

Alissa D'Gama | Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics (General)

Alissa D'Gama | Professional History

Dr. Alissa D’Gama is an Attending Physician in Medicine in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she serves as Director of the Neonatal Neurogenetics Program, and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Harvard College and her MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School through the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program. Dr. D’Gama completed pediatrics residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program on the Accelerated Research Pathway and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship training in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program, where she served as Chief Fellow. For her postdoctoral training, she was mentored by Drs. Annapurna Poduri and Timothy Yu at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. D’Gama is a physician-scientist dedicated to clinical care of critically ill infants and to translational research that advances precision medicine for infants and children with neurological and genetic conditions, especially infants with epilepsy and related neurogenetic disorders. Her lab conducts research at the intersection of developmental neuroscience, genetics/genomics, and neonatology.

Alissa D'Gama | Publications

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