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Monica Lemmon, MD
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MD, Harvard Medical School
Monica Lemmon, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics within the Division of Pediatric Neurology. She works as a fetal and neonatal neurologist and directs Duke’s Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery Program.
Dr. Lemmon’s research aims to understand, measure, and improve how parents and clinicians partner to make decisions for critically ill children. Specific areas of interest include measures of shared decision making, parent outcomes after neonatal illness, and parent-clinician communication. Dr. Lemmon’s work has received support from the National Palliative Care Research Center, NINDS Child Neurologist Career Development Program, and Derfner Foundation.
Lemmon ME, Chapman I, Malcolm W, Kelley K, Shaw RJ, Milazzo A, et al. Beyond the First Wave: Consequences of COVID-19 on High-Risk Infants and Families. Am J Perinatol. 2020 Oct;37(12):1283–8.
Lemmon ME, Huffstetler HE, Reeve BB. Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Neurology. J Child Neurol. 2020 Sep;35(10):681–9.
Lemmon ME, Bonifacio SL, Shellhaas RA, Wusthoff CJ, Greenberg RG, Soul JS, et al. Characterization of Death in Infants With Neonatal Seizures. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Aug 5;113:21–5.
