Medical Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Dr. Tracy King is the Associate Director for Prevention at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In this role, she oversees NICHD initiatives and programs related to the prevention of health problems in populations included in NICHD’s mission. She is also a Medical Officer in the Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB), where she oversees NICHD’s Pediatric Primary Care research portfolio. Prior to joining CDBB, she was a Medical Officer in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch (IDDB) at NICHD, where her portfolio included clinical bioethics and inclusion of persons with IDD in research.
A primary care pediatrician by training, Dr. King received her M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and an M.P.H from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her pediatric residency at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. Before joining NICHD, she was a faculty member in general pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, where she served on the leadership team of the Harriet Lane Clinic, the pediatric primary care clinic for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
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