Jehanna Michelle Peerzada, MD

Dr. Peerzada is a member of the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. She has served on the Ethics Advisory Committee at Boston Children’s Hospital since 2010 and has been a member of the faculty at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard since 2014. She is a practicing pediatric hospitalist in the BCH Network at South Shore Hospital. Dr. Peerzada earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College, medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, and a master’s degree in clinical research from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at the University of Virginia. During a subsequent fellowship in Pediatric Health Services Research at Harvard, she examined neonatologists’ attitudes and practices towards the delivery room resuscitation of very preterm infants in New England and Sweden. Following this, she pursued formal ethics training by completing a fellowship in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Her primary activities in ethics include ethics consultation at Boston Children's Hospital, committee work for the development of institutional ethics policies, and ethics education at all levels of medical training. She has taught in the Essentials of the Profession curriculum since 2020.