Elizabeth Rogers, MD

Dr. Elizabeth Rogers is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco, where she practiced neonatology in the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) for over fifteen years and was the inaugural Director of the ROOTS Program and The Grove Small Baby Unit. She continues to serve as the Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Chief Experience Officer in the UCSF Department of Pediatrics. Her clinical and scholarly expertise is in preterm birth, neuroprotection, health equity, metabolic predictors of outcomes after preterm birth, and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes after neonatal critical illness.

Dr. Rogers' interests include neonatal care in humanitarian settings, ensuring families as care partners, and increasing physician vitality and improving health care culture. She has led follow-up efforts for multicenter trials involving preterm and term infants at risk for pulmonary and neurodevelopmental impairment and serves as faculty on statewide and national quality improvement collaboratives. She has contributed to over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She serves on the boards of several global humanitarian organizations and is currently the Chair of the Board of Global Strategies, which is focused on global neonatal and pediatric health.

Dr. Rogers received an AB summa cum laude in Slavic Languages and Literatures and History of Science from Harvard University and received her medical degree from Stanford University in 2003. She completed pediatric and neonatal-perinatal subspecialty training at UCSF.