Dr. Susan Minear

Biography

Susan Ann Minear, MD, is a Clinical Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and a well-respected developmental behavioral pediatrician with over 25 years of clinical care and teaching experience in pediatric primary care, child development, and newborn medicine. She co-created the Newborn Behavior Observation (NBO) Curriculum Training, which has trained more than 9,000 newborn care professionals and students across 19 states and 13 countries globally. Dr. Minear has been actively involved in several task forces at Boston Medical Center (BMC), including the Baby-Friendly task force, which successfully worked towards BMC's recognition as a Baby-Friendly Hospital in Massachusetts in 1999. In addition, she is a member of the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome task force that developed the Eat Sleep Console (ESC) Guideline for training professionals who care for infants exposed to opiates prenatally. Dr. Minear served as the medical director of the newborn nursery at BMC from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2019 to 2024, and has held the position of medical director for Baby Steps BMC, an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic focused on preventing failure to thrive and promoting early intervention for at-risk infants since 2009.

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