Renee R. Jenkins, M.D., has been elected  first ever African-American vice president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, or AAP. With a membership of 60,000, the AAP is the nation’s largest pediatric organization.

Dr. Jenkins will serve as vice president until the National Conference & Exhibition in October. At the NCE, she will become the president-elect and will remain in that role for the 2007-2008 year.

Dr. Jenkins has served on many AAP task forces and committees, including the Committee on Adolescence, the Task Forces on Pediatric AIDS and Reimbursement, and the Committee on Community Health Services. She is an active member of the American Pediatric Society, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and the Institute of Medicine.

She is also a professor and chair at Howard University’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and functions as Principal Investigator at Howard for a research collaboration- Children’s National Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Pediatrics Department Primary Care Division, and the DC Health Department- focused on children’s health disparities In addition, she holds a position as adjunct professor of pediatrics at George Washington University. .

Dr. Renee Jenkins graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Jacobi Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Montefiore Hospital.  

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