Dr. Verscaj completed a combined pediatric and genetics residency at Stanford. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biometry and Statistics at Cornell University. She obtained her medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine. During residency, she led a national survey of the current state of adherence to Medical Genetics curricular guidelines across all medical schools to ensure uniform access to adequate genetics education among physicians in training. She hopes to improve the education of patients, parents, and providers about the molecular diagnostics available to diagnose the etiology of complex congenital anomalies.
Team: Neonatal Class of 2026
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Giulia Lima, MD
Dr. Lima completed her pediatric residency at the University of Florida. She received her bachelor’s degree and medical degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. During residency, she created a program aimed at providing breastfeeding education to uninsured women, which was incorporated into the University of Florida’s Equal Access Prenatal Clinic. She also developed a breastfeeding lecture to be included in the residency’s academic half day. She is interested congenital heart disease and prematurity outcomes, as well as predictive analytics and neonatal hemodynamics.
Ioanna Kotsopoulou, MD
Dr. Kotsopoulou completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. She received her undergraduate and medical degree at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, in Athens, Greece. During residency, she researched developmental changes of the fetal and neonatal thyroid gland, and functional consequences on the cardiovascular system. She is interested in neuronal damage following brain hypoxia-ischemia.
Hailey Evans, MD
Dr. Evans completed her pediatric residency at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program as chief resident. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology, biology, and dance from Barnard College of Columbia University, and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. During residency, she studied the effects of pandemic-associated visitation policy changes on Staphylococcus aureus colonization in our patients, as well as diffusion-weighted imaging findings in neonates with encephalopathy. As chief resident, she developed a program to support professional grief in pediatric residents, and presented this work at multiple local and national meetings. Her fellowship research centers on neonatologists’ lived experience of patient death and non-death loss.
Nisha Dalvie, MD
Dr. Dalvie completed her pediatric residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program. She received her bachelor’s degree in biological engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She obtained her medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine. During residency, she conducted a mixed-methods project designed to understand the barriers and challenges to engaging families of color from transition to NICU to specialty clinics, and to better establish NICU GraDS as a medical home for all medically complex children. She is interested in inequities in NICU follow-up and clinical outcomes, and methods to improve family engagement in the NICU. She is completing a concurrent fellowship in the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and pursuing a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
