Sara Handley, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Attending Physician, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Neonatology
2nd Floor Main Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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.
Permanent linkBA (Chemistry)
St. Olaf College, 2007.
MD
University of Minnesota Medical School, 2012.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2019.
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
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.
Kozhimannil KB, Leonard SA, Handley SC, Passarella M, Main EK, Lorch SA, Phibbs CS: Obstetric Volume and Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Low-risk and Higher-risk Patients Giving Birth at Rural and Urban US Hospitals. JAMA Health Forum June 2023.
Handley SC, Nembhard IM, Passarella M, Cecarelli C, Bonafide C, Lee HC, Cohen J, Tioseco J, Chuo J, Foglia EE: Delivery Room Organizational Culture and Impact on Provider Perceptions on Practice Implementation. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA - Poster June 2023.
Salazar EG, Montoya-Williams D, Passarella M, McGann C, Paul K, Murosko D, Pena MM, Ortiz R, Burris HH, Lorch SA, Handley SC. : County-level Maternal Vulnerability and Preterm Birth in the United States. JAMA Network Open May 2023.
Handley SC*, Kumbhat K*, Eggleston B, Foglia EE, Davis AS, Van Meurs K, Lakshminrusimha S, Walsh M, Watterberg KL, Wyckoff MH, Das A, DeMauro SB: Exposure to umbilical cord management approaches and death or neurodevelopmental impairment at 22-26 months' corrected age after extremely preterm birth. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition May 2023 Notes: * Indicates co-first authorship.
McKenney KM, Lundsberg LS, Burris HH, Ledyard RF, Son M, Greenspan J, Handley SC, Dysart K, Culhane J: The Uptake of Telemedicine in Obstetric Care during the Early Acute Phase of the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic. Telemedicine and e-Health Page: doi: 10.1089, April 2023 Notes: epub ahead of print.
Handley SC, Nembhard IM, Passarella M, Cecarelli C, Bonafide C, Lee HC, Cohen J, Tioseco J, Chuo J, Foglia EE: Delivery Room Organizational Culture and Impact on Provider Perceptions on Practice Implementation. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Washington DC - Poster April 2023.