Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Heather H. Burris, MD, is an attending neonatologist at CHOP Newborn Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She studies social and environmental factors that contribute to perinatal health inequity. She is multiple PI of the NIH-funded Penn-CHOP ECHO site and PI of a pilot trial (PeliCaN) of maternal postpartum care in the NICU for high-risk patients; a midwife and a doula are welcomed into the NICU to provide care at the infant’s bedside. Dr. Burris also performs analyses of pregnancy cohorts and is PI of a large Penn Medicine birth cohort study, GeoBirth, in which preterm births are rigorously phenotyped and linked to area-level exposures. She has an NIH R01 with Dr. Eugenia South, to study greenspace effects on pregnancy outcomes. She’s an avid soccer and swim mom to three girls.