Daria F Ferro, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Hospitalist, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Patient Reported Outcomes Program, Center for Healthcare Quality and Analytics, CHOP
Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHI), CHOP
Lecturer, Leading Improvement Curriculum, Center for Healthcare Quality & Analytics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director Innovation Ecosystem, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Director of Quality Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Clinical Informatics Medical Director of Health IT Measurement and Outcomes, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Barnard College, Columbia University, 2005.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, 2012.
NA (Healthcare Data Analytics Certificate)
Office of National Coordinator/ Oregon Health & Sciences University, 2017.
Cert. (Clinical Research Certificate)
Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
NA (Mack Technology Fellow; Innovation Management Curriculum)
UPenn - Wharton, 2018.
NA (Implementation Science Institute )
University of Pennsylvancia, 2018.
Cert. (Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate)
Oregon Health & Sciences University, 2018.
NA (Physician Leadership Program)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2022.
NA (Division of General Pediatrics' Leadership Coaching Program (LARGO))
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2023.
Permanent linkBA (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Barnard College, Columbia University, 2005.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, 2012.
NA (Healthcare Data Analytics Certificate)
Office of National Coordinator/ Oregon Health & Sciences University, 2017.
Cert. (Clinical Research Certificate)
Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
NA (Mack Technology Fellow; Innovation Management Curriculum)
UPenn - Wharton, 2018.
NA (Implementation Science Institute )
University of Pennsylvancia, 2018.
Cert. (Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate)
Oregon Health & Sciences University, 2018.
NA (Physician Leadership Program)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2022.
NA (Division of General Pediatrics' Leadership Coaching Program (LARGO))
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2023.
Selected Publications
Remez RE, Dubowski KR, Ferro DF, Thomas EF: Primitive audiovisual integration of speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics May 2025.Ferro, DF; Bartek, V; Oppenheimer, O; Winston, F: Empowering a Diverse Pediatric Workforce with New Academic Entrepreneurship Training. Poster/ Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting April 2025 Notes: Honolulu, Hawaii.
Ferro, DF; Houng K; Burlingame, C; McNeely, L: Integrating Provider Review of Patient-Reported Outcomes at a Health System Level is Feasible and Informative. Poster/ Pediatrics Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting April 2025 Notes: Honolulu, Hawaii.
Makeneni, S., Rasooly, I., Albanowski, K., Hehir, D., McLoone, M., Ferro, D., Rottenberg, S., Kern‐Goldberger, A., Hamershock, R., Won, J., Irizarry, J., McNamara, M., Stinson, H., Ruppel, H., Brent, C., Luo, B., Cieplinski, J., & Bonafide, C. : A systems engineering approach to alarm management on pediatric medical–surgical units. Journal of Hospital Medicine 20(1): 98-103, January 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13507.
Bartek V, Ferro D, Winston F, Kessel M.: Accessible training for academic clinicians and researchers to address the need for academic entrepreneurs. Nature Biotechnology(42), 1618-20, October 2024.
McLoone M, McNamara M, Jennings MA, Stinson HR, Luo BT, Ferro D, Albanowski K, Ruppel H, Won J, Bonafide CP, Rasooly IR. : Observing sources of system resilience using in situ alarm simulations Journal of hospital medicine 18 (11), Nov 2023.
Carr LH, Christ L, Ferro DF: The Electronic Health Record as a Quality Improvement Tool: Exceptional Potential with Special Considerations. Clin Perinatol 50(2), June 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.clp.2023.01.008.
Salinero LK, Villavisanis DF, Cheung L, Ferro DF, Folsom N, Cho DY, Low DW, Jackson O, Bartlett SP, Swanson JW : Integration of the Cleft-Q Patient Reported Outcome Tool into a Multidisciplinary Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic: A Proof of Concept. Plast Reconstr Surg June 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000010859.
Ferro DF: Lessons learned from large scale implementation of patient reported outcome measures. Poster / Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting May 2023 Notes: Washington, DC.
Ferro DF, Houng K, Burlingame C, Hamida C, Yi K, McNeely L: Clinical Informatics Powers Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Program at Large Children’s Hospital. Poster/ AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference May 2023 Notes: Chicago, IL.