Daria F Ferro, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Hospitalist, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Patient Reported Outcomes Program, Center for Healthcare Quality and Analytics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 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
Medical Director, Health IT Measurement and Outcomes (Clinical Informatics), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of General Pediatrics
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of General Pediatrics
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Barnard College, 2005.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, 2012.
Permanent linkBA (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Barnard College, 2005.
MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, 2012.
Selected Publications
Ferro DF, Tobias M, Carr LH, Wentz P, Rodriguez M, Pitts C, Kane E, Shelov E. : Leveraging 10 Days of Alert Malfunction to Improve Mature Organizational Clinical Decision Support Processes. Applied Clinical Informatics 17(1): 46-51, Jan 2026.Remez RE, Dubowski KR, Ferro DF, Thomas EF: Primitive audiovisual integration of speech. Atten Percept Psychophys 87(4): 1353-1364, May 2025.
Ferro, DF; Bartek, V; Oppenheimer, O; Winston, F: Empowering a Diverse Pediatric Workforce with New Academic Entrepreneurship Training. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, Poster April 2025.
Ferro, DF; Houng K; Burlingame, C; McNeely, L: Integrating Provider Review of Patient-Reported Outcomes at a Health System Level is Feasible and Informative. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, Poster April 2025.
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. J Hosp Med 20(1): 98-103, Jan 2025.
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(10): 1618-20, October 2024.
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 154(2): 351e-355e, Aug 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. J Hosp Med 18(11): 994-998, 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): 473-488, June 2023.
Ferro DF: Lessons learned from large scale implementation of patient reported outcome measures. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Poster May 2023.