Stephanie L Santoro, MD

Stephanie L. Santoro, MD, a board-certified pediatrician / clinical geneticist and an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She has focused her career on improving medical care through quality improvement techniques and guideline adherence for individuals with genetic syndromes.  She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  She completed a five-year combined pediatrics/medical genetics residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.  She provides medical care to individuals with a variety of genetic syndromes, including: Down syndrome, 22q deletion syndrome, Stickler syndrome, and others.

Dr. Santoro has served/serves on: the Health Advisory Board of the Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati, the Governing Board and Medical Advisory Committee of the Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio, the Health Advisory Board of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee and the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, the Board of Directors of the Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group (DSMIG-USA), the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Genetics, and the Steering Committee of the Trisomy Collaborative.

Dr. Santoro has been invited to speak locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on topics including: medical care for Down syndrome, research on health in Down syndrome, adherence to the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines and successful methods to improve adherence (EHR integrations), and research on trisomy 13 and 18.

Education & Training

• Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Pediatrics / Medical Genetics, 2014
• Medical Education: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2009

Board Certifications

• Clinical Genetics and Genomics, American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
• Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics

Languages Spoken

• English

Age Group Treated

• Pediatrics
• Adolescents
• Adults