Overview

Throughout my career, I have been a clinician-educator balancing the clinical care of patients in inpatient and outpatient settings, along with dedicated teaching duties and various administrative posts. Along with those duties, I have also been an active participant in areas of pediatric research related to pediatric hypertension. These studies include pediatric clinical trials of antihypertensive agents, and I also collaborated on an NIH-funded project that studied executive cognitive function in children and adolescents with hypertension with investigators at the University of Rochester, the University of Texas, Houston and SUNY Downstate.

Additionally, I have collaborated with a pastoral theologian on a qualitative project funded by the Lilly Foundation that studied the concept of hope in children and adolescents with end stage renal disease.

I have served as a member of the NICHD Working Group on Pediatric Hypertension, and I have been a member of the International Pediatric Hypertension Association, having served as Education Chair for over ten years. In that role, I have been actively involved in the Program Planning Committees of the Pediatric Academic Societies and the American Hypertension Associations annual meetings. I have also been a member of the board of trustees of Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, and I chair the Student Affairs and Athletics Commitee.

At Emory, I am the executive director of the Pre-Health Advising office in the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. In the Emory School of Medicine, I am a small group advisor in the Osler Society, and I chair the Educational Development Committee of the School of Medicine's Executive Curriculum Committee. Additionally, I have participated in the current TRACE (The Renaissance Academy at the Center for Ethics) program for four of the past five years, travelling to Italy for 1-4 weeks team teaching a group of students from a variety of backgrounds.

In summary, I participate in the typical duties of an academic physician with teaching, patient care, clinical research and community service as my way of playing out the multifaceted aspects of an academic career.

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research