Emily Whitesel

Emily Whitesel is a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School and specializes in neonatal care and pediatrics.

• Undergraduate: Vassar College, 2004
• Medical Degree: Harvard Medical School, 2010
• Internship & Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2011-2013
• Fellowship: Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Training Program, 2017

Her research focuses span neonatology, pediatric respiratory care, and healthcare quality improvement. She has developed tools like the NSIGHT survey to assess clinical practice variations and improve interdisciplinary care in NICUs. Her clinical expertise includes neonatal resuscitation, respiratory management, and ventilator-associated pneumonia definition standardization.

Recent publications analyze respiratory care practices in level III/IV NICUs (2024), quality improvement frameworks (2024), and diagnostic approaches for neonatal airway obstructions (2023). Earlier work (2006) investigated T-cell molecular mechanisms in immunology.

• Board-certified in Pediatrics & Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Active in Boston Children's Hospital NICU quality initiatives

Contact: emily.whitesel@childrens.harvard.edu | Phone: 508-973-5668 | NPI: 1972820397