Sarah Lawrence MD, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Sarah Lawrence received her medical degree from Dalhousie University in 1999. She then completed her pediatric residency and neonatal fellowship in Ottawa, becoming a neonatologist in 2004. She held the position of program director for neonatal-perinatal medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) from 2007-2016. She is currently the Site Chief of Neonatology at the Ottawa Hopsital, General Campus. Her research focuses on improving current curricula for neonatal/perinatal medicine, particularly in evaluation. In addition she has interests in neonatal pathology as it relates to necrotizing enterocolitis and neonatal abstinence syndrome.  She has been involved in research pertaining to PDA management in the premature infant and in rational use of antibiotics in the NICU.