Lauren Middlebrooks

Biography:

Dr. Lauren Middlebrooks, is an assistant professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.  Dr. Middlebrooks received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.  She then earned a doctorate of medicine from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.  Dr. Middlebrooks remained in Tennessee to complete residency training in Pediatrics at Monroe Carroll, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University, where she served as vice-president of the Minority House-staff for Academic and Medical Achievement and co-chaired the residency’s global health interest group.  Dr. Middlebrooks then went on to complete fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Emory University, where she cultivated an interest in health equity by working to improve HIV testing in adolescents in the pediatric emergency department.  Dr. Middlebrooks, who also serves as chair of her division’s faculty recruitment committee, and member of two PECARN sub-committees, was recently awarded a grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. FOCUS program.  She has been working effortlessly and has successfully implemented routine opt-out HIV testing across 3 different pediatric emergency department sites in Atlanta.