Michael Schechter, MD, MPH

Director of the Emory Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, Associate Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Health at Emory University.

Michael S. Schechter, MD, MPH, is Director of the Emory Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, Associate Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Health at Emory University.  His research has been primarily concerned with environmental and sociodemographic influences on outcomes in CF and in the last ten years he has worked with the CF Foundation on fostering methods to improve the quality of care for children with cystic fibrosis. He is a member of the CF Foundation Data Safety Monitoring Board and the current chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Pediatric Pulmonology.

Dr. Schechter received his MD at the State University of New York at Buffalo, trained at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia from 1975-1978 and then practiced general pediatrics in Binghamton, NY from 1981-1992.  In 1993 he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he completed a pediatric pulmonary fellowship and earned an M.P.H. in epidemiology.  From 1996-2003, he was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, as well as its founding CF Center director. Following a brief stint on the faculty of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, he has returned to the congeniality of the Southeast.