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Christy Cummings is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a practicing neonatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She serves as Director of Medical Ethics & Humanities for the Division of Newborn Medicine and Chair of the Fetal Therapy Board at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her interdisciplinary background combines clinical work in neonatology with bioethics and medical education.
- Education: Colby College (BA), University of Rochester School of Medicine (MD), Yale University (Internship, Residency, Neonatology Fellowship), Harvard Medical School (Medical Ethics Fellowship)
Her research focuses on medical ethics, humanism, and communication in neonatology and pediatrics, particularly around advance care planning, shared decision-making, and ethical challenges in emerging technologies. Through NIH-funded studies like Optimizing Family Counseling for Anticipated Extremely Preterm Delivery, she explores how ethical principles translate to clinical practice and education. Recent publications examine maternal-fetal interventions, vaccination policies, and international NICU ethics.
Dr. Cummings has received prestigious awards including the Leonard Berlin Scholarship, RSNA Education Scholar Award, and grants from the Greenwall Foundation and Harvard Milton Fund. She leads a multidisciplinary lab with researchers in bioethics, biostatistics, and clinical communication, and has developed a global ethics curriculum via OPENPediatrics™. Her work emphasizes simulation-based training for neonatal ethics and professionalism.
As an active educator, she co-directs the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program and mentors future physician-ethicists. Her lab team includes clinicians, biostatisticians, and educators working on topics like gene therapies, equity in NICU care, and parent-neonatologist communication. She balances her academic and clinical roles with family life, personal interests in triathlons, and cello performance.
