Cheryl Naulty

Cheryl Marco Naulty, MD is a retired physician, who spent 35 years in academic medicine. She has a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MD from Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is board certified in Pediatrics and has sub-specialty boards in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.

Cheryl did her Pediatric Residency and Neonatology Fellowship at what was then the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and spent 10 additional years there on the staff. Neonatology was a very new specialty then. Cheryl was instrumental in developing an infant transport system to support hospitals in the region, as very few had a NICU. She also established a Long-term Follow-up clinic to track the outcomes of the survivors and worked with third party payers to provide equipment and nursing care in the home for infants with chronic medical needs.

Cheryl then began a career as a civilian, working for the Army Medical Department at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She continued to work as a clinical neonatologist alongside the military staff, established a follow-up clinic for military dependent children and ran the Neonatal Fellowship Program for the Uniformed Service University for 3 years. Her primary role was to oversee the Exceptional Family Member Program for the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command. This was a program designed to identify special medical and, for children, special educational needs of dependents of active-duty military to assist in coordination of overseas assignments. In this role Cheryl became involved in establishing early developmental intervention programs for children in DOD Dependent Schools, developing monitoring tools to assess compliance with regulations and working at the DA and DOD level to write policy for the Military Health System. Her final project prior to retirement was as the Principal Investigator on a multimillion dollar grant to explore the availability and accessibility of palliative care services for children with life threatening illnesses.

Cheryl has been retired for 17 years. She is married to Walter Hill and, together, they have 4 children and 10 grandchildren. She plays the piano and has been involved in choral groups all her life. She plays tennis regularly and has become an avid photographer, recognized by peers in photography competitions and juried exhibits. She and her husband travel extensively and love to spend time at their second home on the Chesapeake Bay.