Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH is an attending neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. She studies social and environmental factors that contribute to perinatal health inequity. She is multiple PI of the NIH-funded Penn-CHOP ECHO site and PI of a pilot trial (PeliCaN) of maternal postpartum care in the NICU for high-risk patients.
Dr. Burris also performs analyses of pregnancy cohorts and is PI of a large Penn Medicine birth cohort study, GeoBirth, in which preterm births are rigorously phenotyped and linked to area-level exposures. She has an NIH R01 with Dr. Eugenia South to study greenspace effects on pregnancy outcomes. Dr. Burris received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her MD from Temple University. She completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her neonatology fellowship at Harvard. She obtained her MPH at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health through the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship. She mentors students and trainees across the Penn-CHOP community and beyond. She’s an avid soccer and swim mom to three girls.
