Claudia R. Morris

Dr. Claudia R. Morris, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and holds the Wilbur Fisk Glenn Jr. Distinguished Faculty Chair for Clinical & Translational Research. She is the Director of Research for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) at Emory and is also the Co-Director of the Emory+Children’s Center for Clinical & Translational Research. Clinically she is an attending physician in PEM at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She received her medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Oakland (now UCSF-Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland). She went on to do a chief resident year, as well as a fellowship in PEM at Children’s Hospital Oakland, and remained on as faculty until her relocation to Emory in 2012. Dr. Morris has been actively involved in clinical and translational research for over 2 decades and has a successful track record of extramural funding, clinical trials leadership, high-impact publications and mentorship of fellows, medical students and junior faculty. Dr. Morris is the site PI from the San Francisco-Oakland, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative (SPARC) node within the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), that includes all 3 Children’s pediatric emergency department (ED) campuses in Atlanta evaluating over 240,000 children annually, in a network effort to identify best practices for the prevention and management of acute illnesses and injuries in children across the continuum of emergency medicine health care. She has built a research infrastructure within the ED over the last decade that insures successful enrollment into research projects including patients with suspected COVID-19 into the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program and the international Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) while they are evaluated clinically in the ED, and led various ED-based HIV screening studies. Successful research takes a village.