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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.
Glass HC, Numis AL, Soul JS, Wusthoff CJ, Lemmon ME, Benedetti GM, et al. Profiles and Predictors of Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 5-6 Years in Children With a History of Acute Provoked Neonatal Seizures. Ann Neurol. 2026 Jan 3;
Dorner RA, Li L, Lemmon ME, Zangeneh SZ, Das A, Discenza DA, et al. Inpatient morbidities and medical technology use at 2 years among extremely preterm infants. Pediatr Res. 2025 Dec 16;
Creutzfeldt CJ, Bogetz J, Candrian C, Colborn KL, Crooms RC, Fehnel CR, et al. Proceedings of the First Neuropalliative Care Research Summit (NeuroCARES). J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Dec;70(6):e366–76.