Leah H Carr, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services)
Attending Neonatologist, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Neonatologist, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Member, Focused Ultrasound Education (FUSED) Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Clinical Champion, Informatics Consultant, Research/Quality Improvement/Operational efforts, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania Health System
Co-Chair, Clinical Decision Support Commitee, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of Clinical Informatics, Newborn Care Network, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Faculty Member, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
ACGME Site Lead, Clinical Informatics Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Neonatology
2NW59 Main
Philadelphia, PA 19014
Division of Neonatology
2NW59 Main
Philadelphia, PA 19014
Education:
BS (Neuroscience)
Bates College, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine, 2014.
Permanent linkBS (Neuroscience)
Bates College, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine, 2014.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Neonatal-perinatal medicinePoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
Description of Other Expertise
Epic electronic health record buildData analytics
Description of Research Expertise
Clinical informaticsQuality improvement
Selected Publications
Ruan A, Mercado O, Welsh D, Carr L: Creation of a novel, multicenter neonatal clinical decision support rounding tool. Poster Presentation, American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Conference, Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA May 2025.O'Reilly M, Foglia E, Herrick HM, Lee S, Wildenhain P, Carr LH: Finding a baby in a haystack: Leveraging automated data capture from the electronic health record for a multicenter delivery room registry. Poster Presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI April 2025.
Coggins SA, Carr LH, Harris MC, Srinivasan L: Sepsis huddles in the neonatal intensive care unit: A retrospective cohort study of late-onset infection recognition and severity assessment. Journal of Pediatrics 272(1): 114117, Sep 2024.
Peebles P, Christ L, Flibotte J, Presser L, Carr LH: Standardizing neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy evaluation and documentation practices. Journal of Perinatology 44(8): 1216-1221, Aug 2024.
Mercado O, Ruan A, Oluwalade B, Devine M, Gibbs K, Carr LH: Leveraging novel clinical decision support to improve preferred language documentation in a neonatal intensive care unit Applied Clinical Informatics 15(3): 629-636, May 2024.
Heimall L, Ades A, Carr LH, Herrick H, Irizarry J, Lim C, Rodriguez Paras C, Rodriguez M, Taylor-Magobet J: Successful implementation of electronic documentation during neonatal delivery room resuscitation Poster Presentation, CHOP Quality and Safety Day, Philadelphia, PA May 2024.
Rodriguez-Paras C, Heimall L, Irizarry J, Taylor-Margobet J, Carr LH, Ades A, Herrick H: Assessing usability for new technology implementation in the delivery room. Poster Presentation, Pediatric Academic Society Meeting, Toronto, ON May 2024.
Irizarry J, Rodriguez M, Carr LH: Code narrator success stories. Platform Presentation, Epic XGM, Verona, WI Apr 2024.
Rodriguez-Paras C, Heimall L, Irizarry J, Taylor-Margobet J, Carr LH, Ades A, Herrick H: Assessing usability for new technology implementation in the delivery room. Platform Presentation, Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Mar 2024.
Carr L, Oluwalade B, Beus J, Muthu N, Bonafide C : Between-hospital variation in clinical decision support availability for common inpatient pediatric conditions: results of a national Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRĪS) Network survey. Journal of Hospital Medicine 18(7): 617-621, Jul 2023.