Robert J. Graham

Robert J. Graham is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and holds a Senior Associate role in Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. He specializes in pediatric critical care with a focus on children with chronic technology dependence and complex medical needs. He leads the Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Perioperative Extension (CAPE) Program, providing longitudinal care for ventilator-assisted children and families. His research emphasizes health services evaluation, including quality of life, clinical outcomes, and resource utilization in chronically ill pediatric populations.

Education: MD from UCLA School of Medicine (1996), residency at Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP, 1999–2000), and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children's Hospital (2004).

Research interests include chronic respiratory failure, spinal muscular atrophy therapeutics, and precision social medicine. He established the Chronic Critical Illness subgroup within the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) in 2017. His recent publications address caregiver burden in rare diseases, neighborhood resource impacts on health outcomes, and perioperative care for technology-dependent youth.