Sara Handley, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Neonatology
2nd Floor Main Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of Neonatology
2nd Floor Main Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 267-455-5280
Education:
BA (Chemistry)
St. Olaf College, 2007.
MD
University of Minnesota Medical School, 2012.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2019.
Permanent linkBA (Chemistry)
St. Olaf College, 2007.
MD
University of Minnesota Medical School, 2012.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2019.
Description of Research Expertise
Sara Handley, MD, MSCE, is a health services researcher focused on evaluating the impact of the perinatal health care system, including institutional structure, organizational culture, and unit processes on perinatal outcomes and outcome variation. Perinatal health system factors in her research include perinatal regionalization (i.e. levels of care, risk-appropriate care delivery), organizational culture (i.e. maternal-, neonatal- and mother-infant-centered culture), and neonatal care processes (i.e. delivery room and in unit resuscitation, umbilical cord management at birth).Selected Publications
Burris HH, Darden N, Power M, Walker L, Ledyard R, Reiter J, Lewey J, Trout KK, Tan M, Gregory EF, DeMauro SB, Lorch SA, Christ L, Handley SC, Montoya-Williams D, Durnwald C: Postpartum Care in the Neonatal intensive Care Unit (PeliCaN) – a Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal Obstetrics Gynecology MFM May 2025.Bourque SL, Hannan KE, Handley SC, Passarella M, Radack J, Lorch SA, Hwang SS: Rural – Urban Disparities in Mortality among US-born Preterm Infants. Hospital Pediatrics May 2025.
Corson CL, Nembhard IM, Radack J, Foglia EE, Handley SC: Gender Differences in Psychological Safety in Neonatal Resuscitation Teams. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI – Poster April 2025.
Handley SC, Radack J, Goldstein Novick NP, Rogowski J, Srinivas MD SK, Lorch SA: Birth Hospital Perinatal Care Profiles: Concordance and Discordance of Maternal and Neonatal Levels of Care. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI - Poster April 2025.
Handley SC, Goldstein Novick NP, Radack J, McDaniel CE, Lorch SA: Publicly available variables reflecting hospital-based neonatal care capabilities have limited accuracy. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI – Poster April 2025.
Scott K, Miller E, Culhane JF, Greenspan J, Handley SC, Lo JY, Knake LA, McKenney KM, Burris HH, Dysart K: Lack of prophylactic newborn vitamin K administration increasing in a US-based electronic health database. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI – Poster April 2025.
Goldstein Novick NP, Radack J, Lorch SA, Passarella M, Salazar EG, Nelin TD, Handley SC: Heterogeneity of patients, services, and outcomes amongst level III neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI – Platform April 2025.
Schmatz M, Handley SC, McKenney K, Burris HH, Miller E, Son M, Culhane J, Greenspan J, Dysart K: Evaluating The Incidence of HIE in a Contemporary Cohort: Trends in Diagnosis and Disease Severity Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI – Poster April 2025.
Scott KA, Ledyard RF, Darden N, Durnwald C, Handley SC, Nelin TD, Power M, Sinclair TR, Burris HH: Postpartum care receipt among parents of preterm infants admitted to the NICU. American Journal Obstetrics Gynecology MFM March 2025.
Salazar EG, Handley SC, Lorch SA: Thinking More about Less: A Healthcare System for Lower Acuity Infants. Pediatrics February 2025.