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
Balmer DF, Shum M, Schumacher D. : From confidence to comfort: What trainees teach us about readiness for practice. International Clinical Educators Blog; https://icenet.blog/ 2026.Balmer DF: The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors. https://www.amazon.com/Long-Arc-Training-Stories-Aspiring/dp/1487565593. University of Toronto Press, 2026.
Sagin A, Musheno-King R. Olenik JM, Bennett NL, Dine CJ, Dingfield L, Balmer DF.: Outcomes from a longitudinal palliative care curriculum for medical students. Journal of Palliative Care [in press], 2026.
O’Connor M, Hobday PM, Long M, Soep J, Schwartz A, Balmer DR et al. , Emily Borman-Shoap, Bruce Herman, Janice L Hanson, J Lindsey Lane, John S Andrews, James F Bale, Sara M Bu: Competency-based advancement in medical education: Outcomes of the Education in Pediatrics Across the Continuum (EPAC) Project. Academic Medicine Dec 2025.
Anderson HA, Balmer DF, Weiss A, Govaerts M, Busari JO. : Power moves: an ethnographic investigation of how space, place, and pace influence equity in pediatric workplace-based assessment. Academic Medicine(Suppl.), Nov 2025.
Mayeda MR, Rosenblatt S, Balmer DF, Morrison W, Magee P, Kirchner V, Yehya N. : Presence of families at the bedside in the PICU: prospective, mixed-methods study of race and insurance disparities. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 26, July 2025.
Anderson H, Abdulla L, Cabral P, Govaerts M, Balmer DF, Busari, J0.: Abrasion: A phenomenological study of inequity in workplace-based assessment in pediatrics. Social Science and Medicine Page: 118092, Apr 2025.
Anderson HA, Cabral P, Liverpool C, Gonzales M, Weiss A, Cullen D, Balmer D, Govaerts M, West DC, Busari J. : Co-designing a justice-oriented assessment system in a pediatric residency program: Report from the Designing for Equity in Medical Education Project. Perspectives on Medical Education Apr 2025.
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 47(2): 206-267, Mar 2025.
Orr A, Balmer DF.: Methodological progress note: Longitudinal qualitative research and applications to hospital medicine. Journal of Hospital Medicine 20(7): 736-737, 2025.