| Kathleen G. Nelson, M.D. is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. A native of New York, she attended St. John’s University, Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and graduated from New York Medical College. She interned at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and completed her residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at Yale from 1974-76 and moved to Alabama in 1976 as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. As a faculty member, she has been an active teacher and administrator serving as junior clerkship director, primary care residency program director, and Division Director of General Pediatrics. Her research interest has been the follow-up of NICU graduates and she has directed a multi-disciplinary follow-up program for over 25 years and has been the principal or co-investigator on grants totaling more than $20 million. She has over 65 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Nelson has been active in organized medicine, serving as President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (now called Academic Pediatric Association), a professional society of pediatric academic generalists as well as a member of several national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 1995, she was appointed Associate Dean for Students at UASOM with oversight responsibility for Records, Admissions, and Student Affairs. In 2001, she became Senior Associate Dean for Students and, in 2005, she was appointed as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development. She is past Chair of the Southern Group on Student Affairs of the AAMC and is Woman’s Liaison Officer for UASOM to the AAMC. She is a member of the Administrative Board of the Council of Academic Societies (CAS) of the AAMC and is now on the Executive Council of the AAMC and the steering committee of the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA). She has been a fellow in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program and a Society for ELAM (SELAM) Board member and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. From 2001-2005, she was the medical reporter for a child health video production seen in over 100 national markets weekly.
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