Kari Radoff, MSN, CNM
Assistant Professor
| Title Assistant Professor Certified Nurse-Midwife Associate Director of Midwifery Services Education |
Her research interests include optimizing perinatal education and shared decision-making and promoting physiologic birth while preventing primary cesarean birth. She uses quality improvement, implementation science, and human-centered design methods to advance perinatal care. She designed, recruited, and convened a Pregnancy Advisory Board as a core group of partners with lived experience to guide human-centered design in implementation science work at Boston Medical Center. In collaboration with Boston Medical Center Marketing and Communication and the Pregnancy Advisory Board, she developed a comprehensive online pregnancy education and resource center for multilingual communities in the greater Boston area.
Recent Publications
Peralta A, Drainoni ML, Declercq ER, Belanoff CM, Radoff K, Bearse E, Iverson RE. Development and testing of a decision aid to achieve shared decision-making for routine labor induction. Birth. 2023 Sep; 50(3):636-645. PMID: 36825853.
Radoff K, Forman R. Lactation Education for Resident Obstetricians: Promoting Breastfeeding Advocates for the Future. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2019 Nov; 64(6):754-762. PMID: 31608544.
Yarrington CD, Radoff K, Zera CA. Online Birth Plans and Anticipatory Guidance: A Critical Review Using Web Analytics and Crowdsourcing. J Perinat Educ. 2018; 27(1):32-37. PMID: 30858679.