Paula Magee MD, MPH
Paula Magee (she/her) is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an assistant professor of anesthesiology, critical care and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University Pennsylvania, and a pediatric critical care attending within CHOP’s Division of Critical Care Medicine.
Throughout her medical career, Dr. Magee has used her health policy background to improve our knowledge of the impact of social factors, including racism, on patient outcomes through research and scholarly activities. Dr. Magee’s research efforts examine how one’s neighborhood can be associated with the development of critical illness and other disparate patient outcomes. She is also interested in assessing the importance of screening for unmet social needs in the pediatric intensive care setting. Overall, she is determined to leverage her research to inform neighborhood-level interventions aimed at stymying health disparities for critically ill children. Otherwise, Dr. Magee has focused her attention on increasing diversity in the medical workforce; creating curricula on health equity and racism; and creating a framework for health equity in the pediatric critical care unit.
Dr. Magee received her medical degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., completed her pediatric residency training at Children’s National Hospital of Washington, D.C., and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship at Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Magee also completed the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, during which she obtained her Master of Public Health in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.