Biography

Dr. Vita Boyar is a Board Certified Neonatologist and Certified Wound Specialist Physician, specializing in pediatric and neonatal wound care. Dr. Boyar is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Hofstra University Medical School and practices both neonatology and wound care at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY, Northwell Health System. She combines both specialties as a director of Neonatal Wound Services. Her neonatology research involves respiratory care and devices; it is closely intervined with her work in Quality Improvement, specializing in pressure injury (PI) reduction. As a chair of Pressure Injury Prevention group at CCMC and a Co-Chair of Northwell PU Task Force she had implemented numerous protocols in PI Prevention, achieving reduction in medical-device related and ECMO related PI. Her active areas of research include use of natural products in pediatric population and education on injury prevention.