Amanda Growdon

Amanda Growdon serves as Clinical Chief of Hospital Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She completed medical training at University of Massachusetts Medical School and residency at Boston Children's Hospital. Board-certified in General Pediatrics, her clinical practice focuses on pediatric hospital medicine.

Growdon's research examines diagnostic patterns in pediatric care, mental health boarding crises, and infectious disease trends. Her work has identified systemic challenges in gastrointestinal misdiagnoses and documented rising incidence of serious head/neck infections in children.

Her recent publications demonstrate methodological rigor in clinical epidemiology, cost analysis of diagnostic protocols, and outcome studies for respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions in infants and children.