Pediatric Hospitalist, Division of General Academic Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College/Thomas Jefferson University
Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship
Nemours Children’s Hospital
Medical Director for Research & Scholarship
Delaware Valley, Nemours Value Based Services Organization
Wilmington, DE

Dr. Abby Nerlinger, MD, MPH, FAAP is a pediatric hospitalist at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, where she also serves as the Program Director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship, the Nemours representative to the Community Engagement Core of the Delaware-CTR ACCEL Program (Accelerating Clinical and Translational Research), and Medical Director of Research and Scholarship for the Nemours Value-Based Services Organization.  She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Nerlinger completed a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Public Policy at the University of Notre Dame, medical school at Yale University School of Medicine, and pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. She subsequently completed a fellowship in pediatric hospital medicine at Children’s National Hospital and earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from George Washington University.  She has prior research and advocacy experience in the field of pediatric environmental health through positions with the Delaware Center for Inland Bays, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Duke University Nicholas School for the Environment, the Yale University Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, and the Mid-Atlantic Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit when it was based at Children’s National. 

Through her current role on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change, she is actively involved in AAP initiatives to improve health equity through the application of environmental justice principles and to engage clinicians in addressing climate change.  Her current research explores the role of partnerships between community-based organizations and health systems in improving health outcomes, primarily focusing on medical-legal partnerships.