Karla Fredricks
Karla Fredricks is the Director of the Program for Immigrant and Refugee Child Health (PIRCH) at Texas Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She works clinically with newly arrived children in the Houston area, including a large number of unaccompanied children. In addition, her research, teaching, and community collaborations focus on ensuring that all immigrant children have access to high-quality health services. Dr. Fredricks also serves as one of the faculty advisors for the Baylor College of Medicine Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, co-coordinates the national Specialty Care Access Network (SCAN), and is an Executive Committee member for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. Previously, she worked as a primary care physician and medical director at federally qualified health centers with large immigrant populations and volunteered with international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders to serve displaced populations across the globe. For the purposes of this project, Dr. Fredricks serves as the Immigration Fellow for the AAP.
Dr. Fredricks received her MD from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, MPH in global health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and BS in biology from Duke University. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and fellowship in global health leadership and innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital.
