We are pleased to announce that Kathryn Fletcher, MD, FAAP, has been named medical director of the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital’s York Street Campus Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), effective immediately, and Brooke Redmond, MD, FAAP, has been named the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) NICU Network System clinical operations director, effective December 1, 2025.
Dr. Fletcher is an assistant professor of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM) at Yale. She earned her medical degree and completed residency at the University of Michigan Medical School before completing a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA. She is board certified in pediatrics and NPM. She was an attending neonatologist at Advocate Children’s Hospital – Oak Lawn and joined Yale in 2021. Dr. Fletcher recently won the Award for Clinical Excellence from the Department of Pediatrics at Yale and has been named a Connecticut “Top Doctor” for 2024 and 2025. She is the associate program director of the Children’s Hospital Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program and is leading efforts in the York Street NICU to improve care of our smallest, most premature babies. She previously served as associate medical director of the York Street NICU and has been interim medical director since March of 2025.
Dr. Redmond is an assistant professor of NPM at Yale and has served as the Waterbury Hospital NICU medical director and chair of Pediatrics for four years. She earned her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, before completing residency at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA. She went on to complete her fellowship in NPM at Yale School of Medicine and was an attending physician at Nationwide Children’s in Columbus, OH before joining the faculty at Yale Pediatrics in 2021. Dr. Redmond developed the innovative 24/7 BABY Neonatology-EMS Program which provides community-based education for emergency medical services, in addition to allowing paramedics and other first responders in the field to have around-the-clock direct access to neonatology support for deliveries occurring outside of the hospital setting. In 2025, the Children's Hospital Association named Redmond an “Audrey” Honoree for Trailblazing Women in Medicine, and in 2024 she was named Connecticut Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Physician of the Year.