Regina M. Palazzo, M. D. graduated from Temple University Medical School. Her internship in pediatrics was at Case Western Reserve’s program at the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland Ohio. From there she traveled to Seattle, Washington to complete a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center (University of Washington).
After residency Dr. Palazzo practiced pediatrics on the Blackfeet Indian reserve in Browning, Montana (a great cultural experience, not to mention great hiking and mountain climbing). From the mountains Dr. Palazzo traveled to the land of the thousand lakes to complete her pediatric pulmonary fellowship at the University of Minnesota. After fellowship Dr. Palazzo was recruited to the pediatric program at the Children’s Hospital in Boston where she served as the medical director of the pediatric lung transplant program and served as an attending in pediatric pulmonology for 5 years. Yale University’s School of Medicine enticed her to leave Boston and return to her native state of Connecticut (yes, born and bred in New London!) where she served for 10 years as the Cystic Fibrosis Center director, Pulmonary Function Lab director and director of the bronchoscopy program.
Nutmeg pediatric pulmonary services was born out of all of those experiences in August 2004. Dr. Palazzo includes in her practice the pediatric consulting responsibilities at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, Connecticut.
When she is not attending to those responsibilities she is the proud mother of 2 young adults and raises Wheaten Terriers in Madison, Connecticut.