Dorene F. Balmer, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Inaugural Director, Research on Pediatric Education, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Fellow, The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Public Health Initiatives
Distinguished Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-896-4646
Email:
balmerd@email.chop.edu
balmerd@email.chop.edu
Education:
B.S. (Nutrition)
Immaculata University , 1988.
M.A. (Nutrition Education)
Immaculata University , 1994.
Ph.D. (Health Studies/Public Health )
Temple University , 2006.
Permanent linkB.S. (Nutrition)
Immaculata University , 1988.
M.A. (Nutrition Education)
Immaculata University , 1994.
Ph.D. (Health Studies/Public Health )
Temple University , 2006.
Description of Other Expertise
Medical educationDescription of Research Expertise
Qualitative researchSelected Publications
Cheung JJH, Balmer DF, Beier SB, Cianciolo AT.: "Making space for more people, more perspectives, and more ideas”: How medical education journal editors view their role in capacity building. Academic Medicine [in press], Nov 2024.Orr AR, Hussain F, Silver M, Tomescu O, Balmer DF.: Creating human connections: A longitudinal qualitative study exploring the capacity of arts and humanities instruction throughout intern year. Academic Medicine [online ahead of print], Nov 2024.
Kinnear B, Beck J, Schumacher DJ, Zhou C, Balmer D. : Building a solid house of scholarship: The importance of foundational worldviews. Hospital Pediatrics 14(3): e189-193, Mar 2024.
Balmer DF, Rosenblatt SA, Blalock AE.: Counternarratives that illuminate faculty agency: A five-year longitudinal qualitative study of physician educators in academic medicine. Medical Teacher Mar 2024.
Fernandez A, Asoodar M, van Kranen-Mastenbroek K, Majoie M, Balmer DF.: What do you see? Signature pedagogy in continuous electroencephalography teaching. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology Feb 2024.
Sagin A, Balmer D, Musheno R, Olenik JM, Dingfield L, Bennett NL, Dine CJ.: Lifelong learning indicators in medical students after a novel communication skills session. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. [online ahead of print], Jan 2024.
Jurgens V, Librizzi J, Shah N, Bhansali R, Balmer D, Beck J.: Pediatric hospital medicine fellows’ perspectives on autonomy through time. Hospital Pediatrics [in press], 2024.
Allen L, Balmer DF, Varpio L.: Physicians lifelong learning journeys: A narrative analysis of continuing professional development struggles. Medical Education [in press], 2024.
Canella R, Feld L, Balmer D, Franklin M, Cielo C, Xanthopoulos M. : Using a longitudinal qualitative approach to understand the lived experiences of caregivers of infants with obstructive sleep apnea who require chronic non-invasive respiratory support. Pediatric Pulmonology [online ahead of print], 2024.
Balmer DF: The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors. Submitted proposal 2024.