Professor Dr. Alexis Rodriguez

Biography

Alexis Luz Rodriguez, MD, IBCLC is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. She graduated from Meharry Medical College and completed her pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Initially practicing outpatient medicine, she became a pediatric hospitalist and lactation consultant. Dr. Rodriguez has specific interests in newborn and special care nursery care, breastfeeding medicine, and managing complex medical problems in infants and toddlers. Additionally, she is involved in quality improvement initiatives and optimizing the use of electronic medical records for physicians. Dr. Rodriguez is also a provider in the NICU GRAD follow program and a member of the Children's Hospital Quality Improvement Team, working on establishing a prenatal consultation service for families expecting newborns at risk of neonatal abstinence syndrome.

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