Mona Raed, MD, FAAP

About

Dr. Mona Raed is a graduate of Northeastern Ohio Medical University. She completed her Pediatric residency and Palliative and Hospice Fellowship in Akron, Ohio. She has since spent her career serving children, adolescents, young adults, and their families while on their journey navigating a life-limiting condition. She is passionate about equity of care, social justice, and patient advocacy.

Her research focused on advocating for patients’ choices at end of life and she designed the first protocol for home transport at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is passionate about education and has served as Chair for the Clinical Core Competencies Committee in Akron as well as Fellowship Director at Riley Hospital for Children. Her academic and professional interests are geared towards the interface of Medicine and Spirituality. She co-directed the Religion, Spirituality and Medicine scholarly concentration at IUSOM with Dr. Alex Lion. She is also the co-creator of the IU Health values grant in Spirituality Based Training. She recently joined a passionate Palliative Care team at Community Health Network. In her free time, she loves all things artistic, riding her Peloton, traveling, spending time with family/friends and most of all watching her two sons see life in all its purity and helping them grow into amazing stewards of humanity.