Abby L. Nerlinger, MD

Inpatient Pediatrics

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Hospitalist - Children's National Health System, 2016

Internship Residency

  • Pediatrics - Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, 2013

Medical/Dental School

  • MD - Yale University, 2010

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics/General Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware Next
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Delaware Medicare
  • Devon Health Services
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Global Medical Managment DE/PA
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Lifetrac Transplant
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • National Transplant (Humana)
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Plan Vista/NPPN PPO
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
  • US Family Health Plan
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

Research Activities

My research interests include:

  • Advocacy scholarship in medical education and promotion and tenure
  • Community engaged research
  • Health system-community partnerships, including medical-legal partnership
  • Pediatric environmental health

  • Advocacy in Pediatric Academia: Charting a Path Forward; Pediatric Clinics of North America; (2023).

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  • Social determinants of health screening in pediatric healthcare settings; Current Opinion in Pediatrics; (2023).

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  • Faculty Support for Advocacy Is Key to Training the Next Generation of Pediatrician-Advocates; Hospital Pediatrics; (2022).

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  • Academic Careers in Advocacy: Aligning Institutional Values Through Use of an Advocacy Portfolio; Pediatrics; (2022).

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  • Evaluating the Efficacy of Medical-Legal Partnerships that Address Social Determinants of Health.; Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action; (2021).

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  • The Advocacy Portfolio: A Standardized Tool for Documenting Physician Advocacy; Academic Medicine; (2018).

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  • Biomonitoring hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) exposure based on serum levels of HDI-Specific IgG; Annals of Occupational Hygiene; (2012).

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  • Socioeconomic predictors of weight loss after laparoscopic Roux-Y gastric bypass; Surgical Endoscopy; (2009).

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  • Effects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon heterocycles, carbazole and dibenzothiophene, on in vivo and in vitro CYP1A activity and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-derived embryonic deformities; Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; (2005).

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