Dr. Jessica Fry is
currently an Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Palliative
Care at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Ann
& Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Her clinical work is with
the divisions of neonatology and palliative care, as well as with the Lurie
Ethics Advisory Board.
Dr. Fry graduated
from Kenyon College and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of
Medicine. She completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia and a neonatology fellowship at the University of
Chicago. Dr. Fry’s research focuses on ethics, communication, and
decision-making for critically-ill newborns, including complex fetal
care. She will be speaking today on a variety of ethical considerations
that are inextricably intertwined with the practice of perinatal palliative
care.