Dr. Rebecca R. Seltzer

Rebecca Seltzer is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of General Pediatrics, with joint faculty appointments at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She received her BA from the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar, received her MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, completed pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, completed fellowship training in Academic General Pediatrics and bioethics at Johns Hopkins, and received an MHS from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a graduate of the inaugural cohort of the Academic Pediatric Association Health Policy Scholars Program. Her academic work, which intersects research, clinical care, advocacy, and medical education, focuses on optimizing the care and well-being of children with medical complexity and disabilities, particularly those in or at risk of entering the child welfare system. Her research, which has received federal and foundation funding, aims to inform interventions, practice, and policy that strengthen and support families to care for children with medical complexity in their own home, as opposed to in a hospital or foster care setting. She is committed to translating her research into impactful advocacy and policy focused on children in foster care and children with medical complexity at the local and national level, as evidenced by authoring AAP policy statements and elected/appointed leadership positions (e.g, Executive Committee of AAP Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship Care, Maryland State Council for Child Abuse and Neglect). As a clinician and educator, she is a general pediatrician at the Harriet Lane Primary Care clinic, where she teaches pediatric residents and medical students. She is also co-director of the Health Equity and Advocacy track within the Johns Hopkins pediatric residency program. She teaches about bioethics and advocacy to medical students and residents across Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Seltzer is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Urea Cycle Disorders (UCD). Her top area of expertise is Urea Cycle Disorders (UCD).

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 30 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Urea Cycle Disorders (UCD).