Martin McCaffrey, MD, CAPT USN (Ret)
Associate ScholarDr. Marty McCaffrey is a Professor of Pediatrics at UNC Chapel Hill in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He is a retired Captain in the US Navy and served as the Director of Neonatal Care at the Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Consultant to the US Navy Surgeon General for Neonatology. Dr. McCaffrey is the Director of the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC or “PICNIC”) which has conducted 11 statewide quality improvement projects across the North Carolina. The mission of the PQCNC is to make North Carolina the best place to give birth and be born. He is also the Co-Chair of the CDC’s National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives. Dr. McCaffrey also has a strong interest in the care of infants and children, and the support of families with challenging prenatal diagnoses. As a member of the International Trisomy Alliance Board and the Be Not Afraid Board he offers significant medical and emotional support to families dealing with difficult diagnoses in their unborn and born children. He has most recently published on the topic of trisomies in the September 2016 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics.