Christiana Marie Russ MD, DTMH

Christiana M. Russ, MD, DTMH is the Assistant Medical Director of the Intermediate Care Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, and an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her interest is in identifying strategies for improving clinical education and teaching strategies for health care workers who work, or plan to work in resource limited settings. She has taught and worked clinically primarily in small hospitals in western Uganda and Kenya, and has researched the efficacy of educational videos on child health topics targeted at caregivers waiting at hospitals.

She is rotation director for the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) Pediatric Global Health Rotations and has developed elective global health curriculum for pediatric residents. She and other global health coordinators in pediatric residencies are building a national collaborative in the Association of Pediatric Program Directors to improve global health rotations.