Personal Biography
Kelly Anne McCullagh, MD, is a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. McCullagh’s clinical interests include perinatal palliative care, parental grief and bereavement and family experience in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She is also passionate about the prevention of acute kidney injury in neonates.
After earning her Doctor of Medicine at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 2018, Dr. McCullagh completed her pediatric internship and residency at Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center in 2021, and was Chief Resident until 2022. She then completed a neonatal-perinatal fellowship and chief fellowship at the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program in 2025.
Dr. McCullagh’s research aims to evaluate the impact of an infant’s medical experiences on parental grief. She has a specific interest in investigating the grief of parents who have lost an infant due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or critical illness in the NICU. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, review articles and electronic media, and she has shared her work through abstracts at national conferences.
Dr. McCullagh is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. In 2025, Dr. McCullagh was an AAP NeoReviews Alistair Philip Article of Merit Award Finalist.