Alexis Luz Rodriguez, MD

Alexis Luz Rodríguez, MD, IBCLC is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics who graduated from Meharry Medical College and completed pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. She practiced outpatient medicine initially for several years and has since become a pediatric hospitalist and lactation consultant. Her particular interests include well newborn and special care nursery care, breastfeeding medicine, outpatient follow up for infants and toddlers with complex medical problems, quality improvement work and optimizing electronic medical record use for physicians. In addition to being a pediatric hospitalist and lactation consultant, Dr. Rodriguez is a provider in NICU GRAD follow up program, a member of the Children's Hospital Quality Improvement Team, an EPIC physician builder and is more recently establishing a prenatal consultation service for families who are expecting a newborn that is at risk for neonatal abstinence syndrome.