Tresa Chappell, MD, FAAP
Associate Professor of Medical Education in Pediatrics
Dr. M. Tresa Chappell facilitates in Year 2 Small Group Learning (SGL), Year 2 Clinical Skills, Year 1/2 Community and Population Health, and Year 1/2 Simulation and teaches several Year 1/2 didactic sessions. Additionally, she supports the Year 3 Pediatric clerkship as a facilitator in weekly simulations and a clinical preceptor at Clarke Middle Health Center. She has served as a Module Lead and Year 2 Semester Coordinator and is a course director for the Year 4 Integrated Science Selective. Dr. Chappell contributes to curriculum development on the MP Case Oversight and MP Simulation Oversight Teams. Dr. Chappell served on the MCG Admissions Committee from 2020 to 2022 and has contributed to the development of the admissions processes for the UGA School of Medicine by serving on the Associate Dean of Admissions Search Committee and LCME Admissions Working Group. Her scholarship focuses on continuous quality improvement related to Case-Based Learning in pre-clerkship curriculum, pediatric topics, and mentoring students in scholarship development.
A Jacksonville Beach, Florida native, Dr. Chappell began her undergraduate career at Oxford College of Emory University and earned degrees in Chemistry and Spanish from Emory University. She then attended Emory University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, TN. Before joining the MP faculty as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in January 2020, she practiced outpatient pediatrics in Alpharetta and inpatient/outpatient pediatrics in Athens for over 12 years. During that time, she served as Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at St. Mary’s Hospital for 4 years and as a volunteer community preceptor for MP students for 6 years. She and her husband, a UGA alumnus and interventional cardiologist who she met in medical school, have three sons.