MandyA.O'HaraMDMPH(She/Her)

Child Abuse Pediatrics, Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Triple Boarded Pediatrics/Child Abuse/Integrative Medicine

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Dr. Mandy O'Hara is a physician based in New York City, specializing in Child Abuse Pediatrics and Integrative Medicine. She completed her fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center/Infants and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn in 2014 and holds an MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. O'Hara additionally completed fellowship training in Integrative Medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona. She is a published researcher and author, and has presented her research as well as workshops for holistic wellbeing for medical professionals at multiple national academic meetings. She has received several awards, including an excellence award in General Public Health and a scholarship from the American Academy of Pediatrics. She currently sits on the Executive Committee for the Section on Integrative Medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is Founder of Compassion Sharing®️, offering trauma-sensitive education and healing arts.

Maimonides Medical Center/Infants and Children's Hospital of BrooklynFellowship, Child Abuse Pediatrics, 2011 - 2014
Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthMPH, Excellence Award in General Public Health, 2014
Tower Health/St. Christopher's Hospital for ChildrenResidency, Pediatrics, 1996 - 1999
MCP-Hahnemann College of MedicineClass of 1996

Scholarship Recipient for District II Chapter 3 American Academy of Pediatrics, 2018
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: Summer Research Institute Cornell University, 2016
Award for Excellence in General Public Health Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2014

PubMed

2 citations
Understanding Bilateral Skull Fractures in Infancy: A Retrospective Multicenter Case Review.
Mandy A O'Hara, Thomas J Valvano, Marisha Kashyap, Jennie C Daly, Angela N Bachim
Pediatric Emergency Care. 2023-05-01
Expanding Trauma-Informed Care to Telemedicine: Brief Report From Child Abuse Medical Professionals.
Mandy A O'Hara, Hanna R Swerdin, Ann S Botash
Clinical Pediatrics. 2023-01-01
Skin Lesions on Sensitive Sites: Mimickers of Sexual Abuse in Children.
Rachel E Reingold, Mandy A O'Hara, Laura E Levin
Pediatrics in Review. 2022-06-01

Journal Articles

Children Neglected: Where cummulative risk theory fails
Mandy O'Hara, Lori Legano, Peter Homel, Ingrid Walker-Descartes, Mary Rojas, Danielle Laraque, Child Abuse & Neglect, 2015

Books/Book Chapters

Medical Reiki: A Groundbreaking Approach to Using Energy Medicine for Challenging Treatments
Chapter: How Reiki Serves Our Most Caring Physicians at Risk of Compassion Fatigue
Raven KeyesLlewellyn Publishers2021

Abstracts/Posters

Bully Victimization of Maltreated Youth: Distinct Risk for Physically Abused versus Neglected Children
Mandy A. O'Hara, MD, MPH, Ray Helfer Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 4/2017
Children Neglected: Where cummulative risk theory fails
Mandy O'Hara, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 5/3/2014

Executive Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Integrative Medicine 2024 - Present
New York Board of Directors, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 2019 - 2024