Dr. Sarah D. Schlatterer

Sarah Schlatterer, MD, PhD, became a prenatal-neonatal neurologist in the Zickler Family Prenatal Pediatrics Institute at Children’s National Hospital in 2020. She completed her MD and PhD degrees as part of the prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013, and it was during this time that she discovered her passion for neurology and pediatrics. After completing child neurology residency at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 2018, she joined the Prenatal Pediatrics Institute as a prenatal neurology fellow to further her education and training in prenatal and neonatal neurology. Dr. Schlatterer’s unique training at the intersection of maternal-child health, neurology and pediatrics has cultivated her passion for clinical care and research. Her research interests include neurodevelopmental outcomes and brain injury in survivors of congenital heart disease and prevention of brain injury in the fetus and newborn. Her areas of clinical expertise include prenatal neurology, neonatal neurology and neurocritical care. When she is not in the hospital, she enjoys dancing Argentine tango, traveling and cooking with her husband. Publications ORCiD.

Her clinical expertise encompasses Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn, Bilateral Perisylvian Polymicrogyria, Agyria Pachygyria Polymicrogyria, and Orofaciodigital Syndrome 6.

Dr. Schlatterer is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology, 2018. She is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 23 peer reviewed articles.