Dr. Frances E. Ferguson, MD, MPH

Dr. Ferguson is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine physician. She received a BS in Zoology from Howard University in Washington, DC, in 1984, an MD in 1989 from HU College of Medicine, and completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1992. She received an MPH from Emory, Rollins School of Public Health, in 2003. She began her medical career at Albany Area Primary Health Care (AAPHC) in Albany, GA, after her Residency. She briefly left clinical medicine from 2004 to 2009 to broaden her public health outreach, expand her commitment to eliminating health disparities, and improve health outcomes for minority populations and the underserved. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Program Director in the Office of Minority Health Research Coordination in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH/NIDDK/OMHRC.) OMHRC’s mission focused on eliminating health disparities in NIDDK mission areas by increasing diversity in the research workforce through the recruitment, training, and career development of minority and other underrepresented students, fellows, and early career investigators. In 2009, responding to her first love of primary care medicine, she returned to AAPHC as a clinical physician. She joined Grady in April 2024. She is a champion of vaccine promotion and uptake and dedicates a significant part of her free time to publicly advocating for the use of vaccines for the prevention and eradication of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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