Sara Handley, MD, MSCE is an attending physician in the Division of Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Handley is an epidemiologist and health services researcher focused on evaluating the impact of the perinatal health care system, including health care structures, organizational culture, and care process variation, on perinatal care quality and outcomes. Dr. Handley has a particular interest in and focus on the intersection and interaction of organizational factors in obstetric and neonatal care and the impact on the birth parent-infant dyad as a whole, especially as it relates to care provided during the birth hospitalization and geographic variation. Her research is conducted in collaboration with a multidisciplinary group of LDI faculty with expertise in neonatology, pediatrics, maternal-fetal medicine, biostatistics, implementation science, health care management, organizational behavior and theory. Her work is currently funded by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Dr. Handley graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. She was a pediatric resident at the University of California San Francisco, where she participated in the Clinical and Translational Research Pathway. While a neonatology fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she was supported by a training grant from the National Institute of Health and received her Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.