Dr. Ringer is the Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In this capacity he has responsibility for the clinical care delivered in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and in the Well Nurseries at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also responsible for direction of the faculty of Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The faculty is responsible for the teaching and training of fellows in the Harvard Program of Newborn Medicine as well as Pediatric Residents from the Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
In addition to his clinical teaching and administrative responsibilities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Ringer is a member of the Perinatal Advisory Committee of the Department of Public Health and the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Committee of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. He is also actively involved in international medicine providing teaching and medical care in newborn medicine in the Republic of Viet Nam.
Dr. Ringer was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Brandeis University. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland and his fellowship in neonatal perinatal medicine at the Joint Program of Neonatology of Harvard Medical School.