Dr. McNamara is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and specializes in Adolescent Medicine. She cares for youth aged 11-25 and supervises pediatric residents at Fair Haven Community Health Center and Yale-affiliated subspecialty sites. She implements best practices in the care of youth facing complex trauma and high-risk social situations. She previously conducted research in implementing trauma-informed systems for high-volume pediatric trauma centers in Chicago. She is the co-founder of the Yale Integrity Project for Child and Adolescent Health, which brings current and accurate research into health policy discourse that impacts youth.
She received a Doctor of Medicine and Master’s of Clinical Research from Emory University in 2013. She completed residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago in 2016 and a fellowship in primary care from the Leadership in Urban Primary Care Education and Transformation Program at the University of Chicago in 2017. She completed fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2021.