Emory Department of Pediatrics

The Emory 1% Awards honors and recognizes faculty who have received study section scores in the top 1 percentile on a grant proposal.

This year's honorees:

Paul Dawson, PhD (Emory Department of Pediatrics)
Theresa Gillespie, PhD (Hematology and Medical Oncology)
Sumin Kang, PhD (Hematology and Medical Oncology)
Christopher LaRock, PhD (Microbiology and Immunology)
Gregory Melikian, PhD (Emory Department of Pediatrics)
Lena Ting, PhD (Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering)

Emory 1% Awards ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wOh2Y

Check out our own Wilbur Lam's feature story!

I Am an Emory Researcher: Wilbur Lam When William Sanders’ heart failed at 68, he was put at the top of the transplant list. His Emory medical team and strong will to live helped secure his future.

Emory's NEW Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency program has been approved to participate in the 2025 Match!

We are thrilled to offer this unique and dynamic program, the only Med/Peds program in the state of Georgia! This program will provide diverse clinical opportunities across three distinguished organizations: Emory University Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Grady Health System. Our program partners closely with two well-established and robust residency training programs: The Emory General Pediatrics Residency and J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency. To learn more about this new residency program, visit https://med.emory.edu/medpeds.

The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Pediatrics Residency Training Program are proud to announce the match of 25 categorical Pediatrics residents and 3 Child Neurology residents!

3rd year Pediatric Critical Care Fellow Rahul Damania is passionate about education & helping the community. He became a physician so he can connect with sick patients & apply basic science & critical thinking principles to optimize their quality of life. https://bit.ly/3J7O4X1

Supporting Pediatric Critical Care in Tanzania: The Emory Muhimbili Partnership for Health Administration Strengthening and Integration of Services. Read more: https://bit.ly/31iDBHz

Despite facing many hardships and challenges, Dr. Joseph “Joe” Langham proves it’s possible to achieve your dreams if you believe in yourself and put in the work. https://bit.ly/3zugoyv

We have an ambitious $200M investment plan to substantially grow our team of world class child health researchers. We plan to recruit 30 new world-class child health researchers over the next five years!

Apply to these positions:

Pediatric Immunogenomics Faculty Position: https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/74167/faculty-position---pediatric-immunogenomics/job

Pediatric Cardiovascular Biology Faculty Position: https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/70984/pediatric-cardiovascular-biology-faculty/job

Clinical Outcomes Research & Public Health Center in Pediatrics: https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/23445/peds-institute---dir.-clinical-outcomes-research-%26-public-health/job

Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research Faculty Position: https://faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/70986/faculty-position---center-for-cystic-fibrosis-and-airways-disease-research/job

Emory University and Children's involvement with the Neonatal Research Network (NRN) has played a huge role in neonatal research at our institutions! https://bit.ly/3vy9pBS

Meet second-year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow Mattie Wolf! She's our feature in April's Spotlight. https://med.emory.edu/departments/pediatrics/news/mattie-wolf.html

Our March Spotlight features third-year General Pediatrics Resident Marissa Adamson. Check out her story: https://med.emory.edu/departments/pediatrics/news/marissa-adamson.html

We’re proud to announce the Emory School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics ranked No. 1 in 2020 NIH funding awarded to pediatrics departments! The Emory DOP received more than $97 million in NIH funds enabling advances to fight childhood diseases and work on cures such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, cancer and blood disorders, cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases, autism and more!

Emory Ranked No. 1 for Research Grants from the NIH | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta ATLANTA (February 11, 2021)–Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, the primary academic partner of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, received the most federal research dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2020 for pediatrics departments, according to ran...