Jennifer Gettings BMBS FRCPC is an Attending Neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. As a Pediatric Neurologist, Dr. Gettings specializes in Neurocritical Care, Epilepsy, Neonatal, and Fetal Neurology. She is dual fellowship trained in Epilepsy and Neurocritical Care.

Her clinical and research interests lie in finding treatments for complex neurological challenges in the ICU, where she focuses on status epilepticus and EEG monitoring, including quantitative EEG. Dr. Gettings is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health at Harvard University. She is motivated by a desire to improve health systems and outcomes for critically ill children through data driven quality improvement and evidence-based policy. 

She received her medical degree from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She completed residency in Pediatric Neurology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada followed by fellowships in Epilepsy and Neurocritical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gettings holds board certifications from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with special qualifications in Child Neurology and Epilepsy, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Neurology, and the Canadian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology in EEG.