Dr. McGrath-Morrow is associate chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine and leader of the Post-preemie Lung Disease Clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research seeks to link early life events with adult lung health and biomarker discovery for future trials.

She is an NIH-funded investigator studying the effects of neonatal lung injuries and infections on lung immune responses, alveolar growth, and adult pulmonary outcomes. Her research centers around the the effect of early life events on postnatal lung development. Her clinical research is focused on preterm children with chronic lung disease and pulmonary hypertension.

Dr. McGrath-Morrow is an executive and founding member of the BPD collaborative which includes neonatologists, pulmonologists, and other healthcare professionals throughout the United States and internationally, with the mission to improve lifelong outcomes of babies with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

She is a principal investigator for the American Academy of Pediatrics Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence, which is committed to protecting children from the health effects of secondhand smoke through research and advocacy. She was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee that wrote the consensus report on the “Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes.”

Dr. McGrath-Morrow is the co-leader of the Rare Lung Diseases Frontier program at CHOP and thematic leader of the Air Pollution and Lung Health section of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania.

MD, University of Virginia (Medicine)

MBA, The Johns Hopkins University (Business)

Associate Division Chief

Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pediatrics

Professor of Pediatrics

Member of the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Pediatric Pulmonology

Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics

Member, American Thoracic Society

Member of the Society of Pediatric Research

The 125 Living the Hopkins Mission, Honoree, 2018

Top Doctor, Baltimore Magazine, 2016-2020

America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly, 2013-2021

Selected KO8 recipient to present research at the American Thoracic Society International Conference, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, 1998

Parker B. Francis Fellowship Award, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1992-1995

Resolution of Diffuse Inflammatory Lung Injury in Neonatal Mice, R01 HL114800

• NIH, NHLBI
• 06/15/13-08/31/2022
• Role: PI

Rare Lung Disease Frontier Grant

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• 07/01/2021-06/30/2024
• Role: Co-PI

Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, RFA-ES-18-003

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• 04/01/2021 – 3/31/2025
• PI: Trevor Penning

RNAseq as Biomarkers for Immune Dysregulation and Malignancy in Ataxia Telangiectasia

• A-T Children's Project
• 3/1/18-2/28/2022
• Role: PI

Pulmonary Complications in a Birth Cohort after a Randomized Trial of Exposure
Antenatal Corticosteroids: the ALPS Follow-up-Study, R01-HL098354

• NICHD, MFMU, NHLBI
• 9/1/2016-7/31/2022
• PI: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman