Katherine R. Standish, MD
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Biography
Dr. Katherine Standish completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University and her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine. After college Katherine worked in community-based public health research, studying harm reduction efforts among injection drug users, first in New York City at the New York Academy of Medicine and then in Tijuana, Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. She then moved to Nicaragua, where she managed pediatric dengue studies at the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Back in her hometown of New Haven for medical school, she served as director of the student-run HAVEN Free Clinic, which provides primary care in a mostly immigrant neighborhood. While at Yale, she helped design a community health orientation to the city of New Haven for incoming medical students, and participated in redesigning the public health and cultural competency components of the medical school curriculum. Katherine is particularly interested in maternal-child health, lactation, immigrant health, and the ethical dimensions of global health and community health endeavors.
Publications
- Published on 11/18/2024
Tanabe M, Pennington K, Standish K, Goldman A. Improving Residency Training in Refugee and Immigrant Health Care at an Urban Academic Family Medicine Residency. J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Feb; 27(1):177-180. PMID: 39556278.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/6/2024
Kalluri NS, Cordova-Ramos EG, Hwang SS, Standish KR, Parker MG. National Trends in Breastfeeding by Gestational Age Category. J Pediatr. 2025 Feb; 277:114388. PMID: 39515750.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/1/2024
Jack A, Mullin C, Brown E, Burtner M, Standish KR, Fields A, Rosen-Carole C, Hartman S. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol #19: Breastfeeding Promotion in the Prenatal Period (Revised 2024). Breastfeed Med. 2024 Aug; 19(8):575-587. PMID: 39186728.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/23/2023
Standish KR, Combs G, McMahon M, Slater C, Zani L, Pindar C, Serafin K, Parker MG, Philipp BL. Early Bloomers: A Nursing-Driven Program to Support Human Milk Feeding Among Late Preterm Infants in the Mother-Baby Unit. J Hum Lact. 2024 Feb; 40(1):96-100. PMID: 37994675.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2023
Harris M, Schiff DM, Saia K, Muftu S, Standish KR, Wachman EM. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol #21: Breastfeeding in the Setting of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder (Revised 2023). Breastfeed Med. 2023 Oct; 18(10):715-733. PMID: 37856658.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/3/2023
Morrison TM, Standish KR, Wanar A, Crowell L, Safon CB, Colvin BN, Friedman H, Schiff DM, Wachman EM, Colson ER, Drainoni ML, Parker MG. Drivers of decision-making regarding infant sleep practices among mothers with opioid use disorder. J Perinatol. 2023 Jul; 43(7):923-929. PMID: 37270538.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/6/2023
Wanar A, Morrison TM, Standish KR, Colson ER, Drainoni ML, Colvin BN, Safon CB, Crowell L, Friedman H, Schiff DM, Parker MG. Understanding cigarette smoking among mothers with opioid use disorder. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2023 Jul; 150:209065. PMID: 37156425.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/28/2023
Standish KR, Morrison TM, Wanar A, Crowell L, Safon CB, Colson E, Drainoni ML, Colvin BN, Friedman H, Schiff DM, Stulac S, Costello E, Parker M. Breastfeeding Decision-Making Among Mothers with Opioid Use Disorder: A Qualitative Study. Breastfeed Med. 2023 May; 18(5):347-355. PMID: 37115582.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/12/2021
Standish KR, Parker MG. Social Determinants of Breastfeeding in the United States. Clin Ther. 2022 02; 44(2):186-192. PMID: 34906370.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/1/2021
Standish K, McDaniel K, Ahmed S, Allen NH, Sircar S, Mira M, Khoshnood K. U.S. trainees' experiences of ethical challenges during research in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed methods study. Glob Public Health. 2022 Jul; 17(7):1433-1449. PMID: 34061716.
Read at: PubMed
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