Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Ostfeld-Johns, MD, IBCLC is an assistant professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Politics, received a Post-bacchalaureate Pre-med certificate from Bennington College, and graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry with her MD. She moved to Yale for internship and residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and stayed on as faculty after completion of her training. She earned her IBCLC in 2023.
She now works as a Med-Peds hospitalist — spending half her clinical time taking care of hospitalized adults and half taking care of hospitalized kids, including newborns during their birth hospitalization. She is a medical educator and serves as one of the faculty leaders of the Race, Bias, and Advocacy in Medicine distinction pathway for Internal Medicine residents. She has been working in the area of prenatal substance exposure since 2020 and in that time has collaborated with local partners including pediatric hospital medicine colleagues, child abuse specialists, addiction medicine specialists, obstetrician/gynecologists, social workers, a Yale Law School student clinic, the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, community partners and others locally and nationally committed to improving care for families affected by substance use and substance use disorders.
