Anne R Hansen MD

Summary

• Dr Anne Hansen is a Boston based Neonatologist specializing in quaternary neonatal intensive care. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1990 and went on to complete a residency at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), and then a neonatology fellowship at the Joint Program in Neonatology (BCH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). She has served as the medical director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) since 2003. Dr Hansen has published well over a hundred manuscripts, chapters and textbooks, including publications in such prominent journals as Pediatrics and The Lancet. Her overarching mission is to improve the care of newborns seriously ill with medical and surgical conditions. Her research focuses on the discovery, implementation and teaching of evidence-based clinical care in the BCH NICU, as well as neonatal wards in low income countries. She has a specific interest in the problem of thermoregulation on low resource settings and has invented and disseminated the Dream Warmer, a non-electric infant warmer designed to complement skin to skin care.