Polina Krass, MD, MSHP is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a Research Scholar at the Center for Violence Prevention. She also serves as a faculty member at CHOP PolicyLab and an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a cofounder of the Adolescent Protection Collaborative, a novel clinic for youth victims of trafficking at CHOP.

Dr. Krass is interested in pediatric suicide prevention in acute care settings and the impact of health policy on adolescent health outcomes. Her recent research has focused on access to adolescent confidential care, pediatric suicide prevention, and pediatric emergency mental health.

Dr. Krass completed her medical degree at the New York University School of Medicine and her MS in Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her pediatrics residency training at CHOP and was a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.