Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Duhaime is the Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and was Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from 2010-2021. She has been a practicing pediatric neurosurgeon for over three decades, and her neuroscience research focuses on the mechanisms, pathophysiology, imaging, and treatment of injury in the immature brain, focusing on translational and clinical research to study injuries occurring in infants and young children, including those seen commonly in child abuse. The work also investigates plasticity, recovery, and return of brain function in children and adolescents through the stages of maturation.
Dr. Duhaime also has a longstanding interest in the relationship between brain and behavior, and in environmental issues. She is an Associate Director of the MGH Center for the Environment and Health, is a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and she serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate Change and Health. In 2016 she spent a year as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where she studied the neurobiology of reward circuitry and plasticity and its relevance to pro-environmental behavior, and she has been working with a diverse team to design a prototype advanced “green” biophilic pediatric hospital. Her book on this work, Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve our Environmental Crisis, was published by Harvard University Press in October 2022.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
