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Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Chair
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Charlottesville, VA, United States

Madhusmita Misra, MBBS, MD, MPH, is a pediatric endocrinologist with decades of clinical experience. She is also the Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair of the Pediatrics at UVA, and Physician-in-Chief of UVA Health Children’s. Before joining UVA, she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, for close to 25 years, where she served as Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and Associate Chief of Academic Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical Research Officer for MGH through the Harvard wide CTSA and Associate Director of the MGH Translational and Clinical Research Center. She has held several leadership positions within the Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES), including serving on its board of directors as a Director-at-Large, and then as its President.

Providing the highest quality of care to Dr. Misra means providing her patients with value-based care that is coordinated, individualized, family-centered, equitable, team-oriented, and state-of-the-art. She is a physician scientist who has been consistently funded by the NIH since 2000. Her research pertains to neuroendocrine, neuropsychiatric and bone consequences of conditions that span the weight spectrum from anorexia nervosa to obesity, and has also worked on bone outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder and type 1 diabetes.

Dr. Misra has received many awards for mentoring and research, including the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School, the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the John Haddad Young Investigator Award from AIMM-ASBMR, the Janet W. McArthur Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from Women in Endocrinology, and the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award from MGH.

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