{"id":38448,"date":"2024-12-26T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/?p=38448"},"modified":"2024-12-26T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:02:13","slug":"walker-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/2024\/12\/walker-promoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><div class=\"row  oscitas-bootstrap-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31633 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/04\/FIMG_PCCM_Walker-Tracie.png\" alt=\"Tracie Walker, MD, MPH\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Tracie Walker, MD, MPH<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Associate Professor<br \/>\nPediatric Critical Care Medicine<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Tracie Walker, MD, MPH was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics effective January 1, 2025. Dr. Walker has been a faculty member in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine since 2019. Dr. Walker received a BS in Microbiology from the University of Georgia in Athens in 2007 and received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 2011. She completed her Pediatric residency at Emory University in 2014 and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine was completed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 2015. Dr. Walker completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 2019. Congratulations! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracie Walker, MD, MPH was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics effective January 1, 2025. Dr. Walker has been a faculty member in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine since 2019.  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