Pamela K. Donohue, Sc.D., M.S.

Pamela Donohue directs the active clinical research program, which supports faculty and fellows within the Division of Neonatology and across the school of medicine. She is an investigator and member of the steering committee for a 31-site, NIH-funded study of infant growth and the blinding eye disease retinopathy of prematurity. She is the principal investigator of other NIH- and private foundation-funded studies. Dr. Donohue has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she sits on the admissions committee for the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, and advises master’s and doctoral students with an interest in perinatal and reproductive health. She has an overarching interest in the welfare of families of hospitalized children, which she pursues through research to improve physician-parent communication and novel approaches to support families, including an NIH-funded study in mindfulness practice to reduce NICU parent stress and improve well-being. She sits on the Children’s Center Pediatric Family Advisory Council.