Karen Ann Santucci MD, FAAP

Karen A. Santucci, MD has been named senior vice president and chief medical officer for Greenwich Hospital, effective September 1. She will also continue as a professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Santucci has been a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital for the past 21 years. She has served as the section chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Yale since 2006 and the pediatric vice-chair of Clinical Affairs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH) since 2017. In this role, she treated patients in the YNHCH emergency department, a Level One Pediatric Trauma Center, specializing in caring for children with a wide range of illnesses and injuries, from urgent to emergent situations that call for dramatic lifesaving interventions.

Dr. Santucci is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She completed her Pediatric Residency and Chief Residency at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY, and her Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, RI