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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.
Porter AS, Chow E, Woods C, Lemmon ME, Baker JN, Mack JW, et al. Navigating prognostic communication when children with poor-prognosis cancer experience prolonged disease stability. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Jan;70(1):e29920.
Rent S, Bidegain M, Lemmon ME. Neonatal neuropalliative care. Handb Clin Neurol. 2023;191:185–99.
Lemmon ME, Barks MC, Bansal S, Bernstein S, Kaye EC, Glass HC, et al. The ALIGN Framework: A Parent-Informed Approach to Prognostic Communication for Infants With Neurologic Conditions. Neurology. 2022 Dec 1;
