Kimrie Donovan, MD
Kimrie Donovan, MD is a retired pediatrician who founded The Justine for Justice Fund in 2020 in memory of her sister Justine Donovan, MD. The New 3Rs was the fund’s first grant recipient.
She received her Doctor of Medicine from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating with selection and induction into Alpha Omega Alpha, The National Medical Honor Society. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, double majoring in Psychology and Spanish, graduating with national honors in both. Her premedical requirements were completed at Bryn Mawr’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Donovan completed her pediatric internship and residency at Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, during which she faced the early stages of Multiple Sclerosis amongst other health issues.
Before medical school, Dr. Donovan participated in research on the effects of divorce on children with the late distinguished Canadian Psychology Professor and prolific author E. Mavis Hetherington. Kimrie also gained invaluable laboratory experience from the internationally recognized pediatric virologist, immunologist and microbiologist, Anne Moscona, MD.
Dr. Donovan brings to The New 3Rs her expertise in the toddler, pre-kindergarten, and elementary years of child development. She defines these years as the most critical time in a child’s life to build a strong foundation of ethics, compassion, and a sense of civic responsibility. Her conviction is this is the period to teach children love and compassion for all others, while avoiding indoctrination by adults surrounding them. She also believes that Black History should be taught accurately and inclusive of all age-appropriate details with the goal to hopefully see a future without on-going repetitive atrocities, genocide, inequality, poverty, and racism.
She has held five unrestricted state medical licenses and remains Board Certified in Pediatrics. Dr. Donovan’s career has been devoted mainly to outpatient migrant health, behavioral and developmental issues, cerebral palsy as well as inpatient rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury and former Neonatal Intensive Care patients before discharge home.
Dr. Donovan is a lifetime Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She retired from active practice after working in several medical facilities spanning almost twenty years due to late-stage Multiple Sclerosis.