Phoebe Yager, MD

Dr. Yager grew up in Greenwich, CT and went to Trinity College in Hartford, CT for her undergraduate degree in Soviet Area Studies.  She then spent 3 years living and working in Moscow, Russia and Zagreb, Croatia facilitating hospital-to-hospital partnerships under a USAID grant with the aim to improve healthcare delivery across the new nations of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.  During her time abroad she solidified her plans to pursue a career in medicine.  She returned to the U.S. and completed Bryn Mawr’s post-baccalaureate program before matriculating at Dartmouth Medical School.  She did her residency in pediatrics at MGH and stayed on to complete a fellowship in pediatric critical care.  Upon graduating, she was thrilled to have the opportunity to join the MGH PICU as well as attend in the Cardiac ICU at Boston Children’s Hospital, but ultimately decided to forego this crazy dual life when her own family began to expand.  In addition to her clinical duties in the unit, she has served as the PICU fellowship director since 2011.  Her professional interests include the use of simulation for team training across disciplines as well as the use of telemedicine to facilitate care from a distance.  When she is away from the hospital, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two boys hiking and skiing in Vermont and caring for their menagerie of backyard chickens and alpacas.