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Matthew Bizzarro, MD

Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)
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Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Pediatrics

Chief Medical Officer, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital

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Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)

Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Pediatrics

Positions outside Yale

Chief Medical Officer, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital

Biography

Dr. Matthew Bizzarro is a Professor of Pediatrics, the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics, and the Chief Medical Officer for Yale New Haven Children's Hospital. He previously served as the Medical Director of the Yale NICU Network, the Yale New Haven Children's Hospital NICU, and the NICU Transport Team, and as Director of the Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.

Invited lectures and publications have focused primarily on neonatal infectious disease epidemiology and the prevention of hospital acquired infections in the NICU population, particularly central line associated bloodstream infections. He has served on the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization's International Task Force to Prevent Infections on ECMO, the Connecticut State Infectious Disease Action Team, and is a member of the Connecticut Statewide Perinatal Quality Collaborative.

Dr. Bizzarro received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School. He completed his Pediatric Residency at New York University and his Neonatology Fellowship at Yale University.

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Education & Training

Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine (2005)
Resident
New York University Medical Center (2002)
MD
Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School (1999)
BA
Dartmouth College, Biology (1995)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Matthew Bizzarro's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2019

2018

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    Rychalsky M, Lurie M, Sicoli P, Kelly S, Chy C, Bhatt A, Hausser C, Svirskiy V, Liptrot M, Duffy J, Papstein T, Huang E, Anderson M, Rogers M, Labrie K, Lagasse P, Bizzarro M, Grossman M. 1291. Critical Care Medicine 2018, 46: 629. DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000529294.26641.ab.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

2015

2014

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Connecticut Statewide Perinatal Quality Collaborative

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    Society for Pediatric Research

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    Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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    Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

  • honor

    Best Doctors in America

Clinical Care

Overview

Matthew J. Bizzarro, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, has been a neonatal specialist at Yale for almost two decades. He treats a variety of issues related to premature birth, congenital anomalies, and respiratory failure. He finds the connections he forms with patients and families in the NICU especially rewarding. “Watching babies you’ve spent months taking care of go home with their families is an overwhelming feeling,” he says.

A professor of pediatrics (neonatology) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Bizzarro researches the prevention and treatment of hospital-acquired infections in NICU patients, particularly central-line-associated bloodstream infections and infections acquired during the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which uses pump technology to provide oxygen to the body while allowing the lungs and/or heart to heal. “I have always been interested in infectious diseases, which are a fairly common and often preventable problem in the NICU with a great deal of associated morbidity and mortality,” says Dr. Bizzarro.

Dr. Bizzarro has served on statewide, national, and international committees to help address these infections. He was honored by Yale Medicine with the David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence in 2016 and the 2023 Connecticut Hospital Association John D. Thompson Award for achievement of excellence in patient care through the use of data.

Clinical Specialties

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine

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    20 York Street, Ste CH/WP 493

    New Haven, CT 06510

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