Christy Cummings, MD

Dr. Christy Cummings is an Attending Physician in Medicine in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cummings is a graduate of Colby College, received her medical degree from the University of Rochester, and training in pediatrics, neonatology and ethics at Yale.
She participated in Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Program in Bioethics and completed the Fellowship Program in Medical Ethics through the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cummings is currently an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an attending neonatologist in the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
As an Ethics Associate, she is a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee at Boston Children’s Hospital, and is Director of Medical Ethics & Humanities for the …Division of Newborn Medicine. Dr. Cummings also serves on the hospital’s Institutional Review Board. Dr. Cummings’ research and scholarly activities focus broadly on medical ethics and humanism and their intersection with medical education in pediatrics and neonatology, as well as counseling and communication.