Raimondi Lecturer: Renee R. Jenkins, MD, FAAP

Renee R. Jenkins, MD, FAAP, is a professor and immediate past department chair in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C. Dr. Jenkins graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Hospital in New York, N.Y.

After completing her fellowship in adolescent medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Dr. Jenkins started an adolescent medicine program at Howard University. In 1994, Dr. Jenkins was appointed chair of the Pediatrics Department serving in this capacity until March 2007. She is currently the principal investigator at Howard for the D.C.-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities, in collaboration with Children's National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University Pediatrics Department, Primary Care Division. Dr. Jenkins was appointed president of the American Academy of Pediatrics at the 2007 annual meeting. As a member of the AAP, Dr. Jenkins has served on numerous AAP task forces and committees.

She is a member of the American Pediatric Society, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and the Institute of Medicine, having served on the IOM Board on Children, Youth and Families. In Washington, D.C., Dr. Jenkins and colleagues founded the Center for Youth Services, and she chaired the Mayor’s Committee on Teen Pregnancy Prevention.

Dr. Jenkins' research focuses on adolescent pregnancy prevention. Her publications and presentations range from adolescent health and sexuality to violence prevention and health issues of minority children. She has been the primary author of the adolescent section of Nelson’s Textbook of Medicine for the last three editions, and she lectures throughout the United States and abroad.