Lisa Wilks-Gallo, MD

Dr. Lisa Wilks-Gallo has been practicing as a pediatrician since 2006 and is board-certified in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. She specializes in the care of hospitalized children from birth through young adulthood, care of newborns immediately after birth, care of technology-dependent and medically complex children, and coordination of care. Dr. Wilks-Gallo’s passion is to ensure that hospitalized children receive optimal care and that their time in the hospital is as comfortable as possible, both for them and their families.Dr Wilks-Gallo is committed to delivering patient-family-centered care and is dedicated to optimizing communication between the medical team and patients and their families.

Dr. Wilks-Gallo has an interest in medical ethics and is a member of the Stony Brook Medicine Institutional Ethics Consult Service Team. Dr. Wilks-Gallo's research interests include all areas of inpatient pediatric and newborn medicine with a particular focus on communication in medicine and medical ethics.

Pulmonary nodules associated with Gemella bacteremia: CT findings in two children with osteosarcoma. Blitman NM, Steiner AM, Bell MD, Wilks-Gallo L; Journal of thoracic imaging, 2007 May