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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.
Bache A, Sutcliffe AG, Lemmon ME, Williams C, Gale C, Land S, et al. Parental experience of having a child with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: a qualitative study. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2026 Apr 17;111(3):F219–26.
Moreira DH, Lemmon ME, Greenberg RG, Rent S, Aleem S. Well-being in parents of infants with neurological conditions: from birth to 6 months after discharge. J Perinatol. 2026 Mar 30;
Field NK, Adhikari S, Dhar S, Young K, Cain KS, Kaplan S, et al. Counseling Preferences of Expectant Parents With a Fetal Neurologic Diagnosis: A Scoping Review of the Literature. J Child Neurol. 2026 Mar 26;8830738261416614.