Barbara H Chaiyachati, MD, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Researcher, Lifespan Brain Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Affiliate Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Core Faculty, Clinical Futures, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Faculty, PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Member, Provider Response Reserve Corps, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of General Pediatrics
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA
Education:
BA (Biology)
Macalester College, 2006.
PhD (Cell Biology)
Yale University, 2013.
MD
Yale University School of Medicine, 2015.
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Selected Publications

Puls, H., Lindberg, D.M., Clemens, N., Austin, A.E., Chaiyachati, B.H., Hall, M. : Hospital Encounters for Child Physical Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Levels of Community Advantage Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2025 Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. May 2025.

Chaiyachati, B.H.: Featured Contributor, In the Loop. PolicyLab Newsletter April 2025.

Puls HT, Noelke C, Jeffries KN, Lindberg DM, Austin AE, Chaiyachati BH, Hall M. : Explanatory capacity of measures of community context for paediatric injury hospitalisations in the USA. Injury Prevention January 2025 Notes: Epub ahead of print.

Schiff, D.M., Chaiyachati, B.H., Parker, M.G.: Addressing Drivers of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Among Prenatally Substance-Exposed Infants. Pediatrics Dec 2024.

Sullivan, E.L., Bogdan, R., Bakhireva, L., Levitt, P., Jones, J., Sheldon, M., Croff, J.M., Thomason, M., Lo, J.O., MacIntyre, L., Shrivastava, S., Cioffredi, L.A., Edlow, A.G., Howell, B.R., Chaiyachati, B.H., Lashley-Simms, N., Molloy, K., Lam, C., Stoermann, A.M., Trinh, T., Namasivayam, A., Neiderhiser, J.M.; HBCD Biospecimens Workgroup: Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol. Dev Cogn Neurosci December 2024.

Hunt, A., Trella, J., Chaiyachati, B.H.: Consideration of Children in Naloxone Coprescribing Laws. JAMA Pediatrics November 2024.

Calihan J, Liu G, Raftery K, Goullaud L, LaFleur J, Walt G, Chaiyachati BH, Schiff DM: Perspectives of mothers with substance use disorder on naloxone education: “I'm ready to have those conversations about who I was, because that's not who I am” Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction Annual Conference, Chicago, IL November 2024.

Burris, H.H., White, L.K., Waller, R., Chaiyachati, B.H.: Oxytocin receptor epigenetics: from biomarker to potential therapeutic target. Pediatric Research Nov 2024.

Chaiyachati, B.H., Linstead, R., Davis, L.A.: What Parents Should Know About Naloxone, a Medication That Reverses Opioid Poisoning or Overdose. JAMA Pediatrics November 2024.

Holloway, K.R., Radack, J., Barreto, A., Chaiyachati, B.H., Montoya-Williams, D., Ellison, A.M., Burris, H.H. : The "Other" race category on birth certificates and its impact on analyses of preterm birth inequity. J Perinatology September 2024.

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