Virginia A. Moyer, M.D.

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Dr.  Moyer is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Academic General Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, where she was also the first Chief Medical Quality Officer from 2009-2011. She graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1977, and trained in Pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC.  She later obtained her MPH degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health.  Dr. Moyer practiced general pediatrics in Houston in the 1980’s, and was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Houston for 17 years before returning to Baylor in 2006.  Dr. Moyer has particular interests in teaching clinical epidemiology, studying the use of diagnostic tests in clinical care, and is a federally funded patient safety researcher.  She is the current chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, is a member of the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group, the AAP Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management, and the International Advisory Board for the Cochrane Collaboration Child Health Field.  Dr. Moyer is author of more than 90 scientific articles and chapters and is Editor of the book Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health.  She is Deputy Editor of Pediatrics and is Associate Editor of Evidence Based Child Health: A Cochrane Journal.  In 2004, Dr. Moyer received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award at the University of Texas, and in 2006 was inducted into the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education.  She was named by Time Magazine as a “person who mattered” in 2011.