Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and serves as a Physician in Medicine and Director of Medical Education in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Her work focuses on neonatal-perinatal medicine with special emphasis on medical education, counseling, and communication.

Dr. Sullivan received her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in 2010 and earned her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2015. She completed her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2018 and her Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship through the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program in 2021. She also completed the Fellowship Program in Medical Ethics through the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Sullivan's research focuses broadly on counseling, communication, and their intersection with medical education, particularly in the context of extreme prematurity and neonatal intensive care. Her scholarly work examines parental perspectives, shared decision-making, ethical considerations, and clinician education in neonatology. She has made significant contributions to understanding how to optimize counseling for expectant parents of extremely premature infants and how to enhance clinician training in these challenging scenarios.

Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on improving communication between clinicians and families, especially when facing difficult decisions at the limits of viability. She has examined parental perspectives on prenatal counseling, developed innovative approaches to clinician education in decision-making, and explored the ethical implications of healthcare policies like the 21st Century Cures Act on neonatal intensive care.

• American Board of Pediatrics (General)
• American Board of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)

As Director of Medical Education for the Division of Newborn Medicine, Dr. Sullivan oversees educational programs and initiatives within the division. Her leadership extends to developing innovative approaches to training clinicians in communication skills and ethical decision-making. She is actively involved in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program, which has trained more than 80% of its graduates to continue in academic research careers.