Sara Handley, MD, MSCE

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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
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.
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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

Barreto A, Formanowski B, Peña MM, Salazar EG, Handley SC, Burris HH, Ortiz R, Lorch SA, Montoya-Williams D: Preterm Birth Risk and Maternal Nativity, Ethnicity, and Race. JAMA Network Open 7(3), March 2024.

Salazar E, Passarella M, Handley SC, Edwards E, Rogowski J, Phibbs C, Lorch SA.: Hospital Financial Health and Provision of Obstetric and NICU Services in the US. Eastern Society of Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA - Platform March 2024.

Lang EA, Cecarelli C, Nembhard IM, Foglia EE, Handley SC: Organizational Culture of Clinical Research in the NICU. Eastern Society of Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA - Platform March 2024.

Bostwick A, Herrick HM, Handley SC, Ades A: A survey of learning organization in neonatal resuscitation. Eastern Society of Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA - Platform March 2024.

Salazar EG, Passarella M, Formanwoski B, Phibbs CS, Lorch SA, Handley SC: The Impact of Volume and Neonatal Level of Care on Outcomes of Moderate and Late Preterm Infants. Journal of Perinatology February 2024.

Handley SC, Salazar EG, Kunz SN, Lorch SA, Edwards EM: Transfer patterns among infants born at 28 to 34 weeks’ gestation. Pediatrics January 2024.

Handley SC, Formanowski B, Passarella M, Kozhimannil KB, Leonard SA, Main EK, Phibbs CS, Lorch SA: Perinatal Care Measures Are Incomplete If They Do Not Assess The Birth Parent-Infant Dyad As A Whole. Health Affairs September 2023.

Murosko DC, Passarella M, Handley SC, Burris HH, Lorch SA: Inter-hospital variation in COVID-19 era pediatric hospitalizations by age group and diagnosis. Hospital Pediatrics September 2023.

Son M, Culhane JF, Louis JM, Handley SC, Burris HH, Greenspan J, McKenney KM, Dysart K: Severe maternal morbidity rates in a US-based electronic health record database, 2018-2022. Journal of Perinatology August 2023.

Clark RRS, Handley SC: Examining temporal changes in hospital maternity nursing resources, safety, and quality. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA - Poster June 2023.

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Last updated: 03/21/2024
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