Dr. O’Donnell is a Neonatologist who has been with Nemours since starting her Pediatrics Residency in 2011.  She has completed both her residency and fellowship training at the combined Nemours/Christiana Care/Thomas Jefferson University program and joined Nemours Neonatology as an attending physician in 2017.   Dr. O’Donnell attended Temple University for Medical School and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Dr. O’Donnell focuses her scholarly activity on education in Global Health as the leader of the Nemours Residency Program Global Health Track and in Quality Improvement and Safety as co-developer of the Nemours Neonatology Fellowship Program QIS curriculum. She is founder and former leader of Nemours NeoConnect, an Enterprise-wide Neonatology consortium focused on standardizing care throughout the Nemours Neonatology network. 

Dr. O’Donnell works with local communities as well as health care providers around the world teaching Essential Care Now and basic Neonatology and General Pediatrics.  She currently works with the physicians and healthcare providers throughout Belize in efforts to improve Delivery Room stabilization and pre-transport optimization by developing a national education and training program. 

Here at Nemours, she is involved in the growing Institute for Maternal Fetal Health providing prenatal counseling to expectant parents with a focus on Perinatal Palliative Care.

Dr. O’Donnell lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.