Dr. Lamia Soghier is a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC.

She is a board-certified neonatologist and the Associate Division Chief of Operations for the Department of Neonatology, and the NICU Quality and Safety Officer at Children’s National since 2013.

Dr. Soghier has a profound interest in improving caregiver mental health in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) through the application of improvement science. After completing a randomized controlled, the team at Children’s National understood that the NICU caregiver population remains understudied despite being at higher risk. These findings and others led Dr. Soghier to investigate factors contributing to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD) in NICU caregivers, the role of resilience and neighborhood disadvantage, and the use of quality improvement approaches to advance universal screening and referral for postpartum caregivers.

Through several funding opportunities, Children’s National has established a multidisciplinary team of physicians, social workers, screeners, psychologists, and quality improvement specialists to advance this work.