Kecia N. Carroll, MD, MPH

Kecia N. Carroll, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a general academic pediatrics fellowship trained asthma epidemiologist and board-certified pediatrician with a primary focus on the influence of prenatal and early life exposures on child respiratory and atopic disease. Dr. Carroll completed her undergraduate medical training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Pediatric Residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, and a General Academic Pediatrics Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In hopes of preventing illness and improving the health of children, Dr. Carroll’s research emphasis includes investigating in retrospective and prospective cohorts modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for respiratory disease in young children, including factors such as familial asthma and atopy, maternal exposures during pregnancy, and viral exposures during infancy. Dr. Carroll is a former recipient of the Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine and her current NIH funded work investigates maternal dietary exposures during pregnancy and the development of early childhood respiratory and atopic disease.