Magna Dias, MD, FAAP

Magna Dias is the Chair of Pediatrics at Bridgeport Hospital and the Regional Medical Director for Inpatient Pediatric Services at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. In this role, she is working to strengthen the care signature of Yale Children’s across the network. Prior to this role, she worked for CHOP for 20 years in various settings including as medical director at several community pediatric hospitalist programs. She also founded CHOP’s pediatric urgent care network. She is the immediate past president of the Society for Pediatric Urgent Care. She has been a pediatric hospitalist for since 1999.

Outside the hospital, Magna enjoys spending time with her 2 young adult children and her husband who is also a pediatrician. As a family, they train in Tang Soo Do and are all black belts. She also enjoys cooking, traveling, and reading.