Donald Lee Batisky MD

Donald Batisky MD has been a clinician-educator balancing the clinical care of patients in inpatient and outpatient settings, along with dedicated teaching duties and various administrative posts. Along with those duties, He has also been an active participant in areas of pediatric research related to pediatric hypertension. These studies include pediatric clinical trials of antihypertensive agents, and he also collaborated on an NIH-funded project that studied executive cognitive function in children and adolescents with hypertension with investigators at the University of Rochester, the University of Texas, Houston, and SUNY Downstate. Additionally, He has collaborated with a pastoral theologian on a qualitative project funded by the Lilly Foundation that studied the concept of hope in children and adolescents with end-stage renal disease.

Donald Batisky is executive director of the Pre-Health Advising office in the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. In the Emory School of Medicine, He is a small group advisor in the Osler Society, and he chairs the Educational Development Committee of the School of Medicine's Executive Curriculum Committee. Additionally, he has participated in the current TRACE (The Renaissance Academy at the Center for Ethics) program for four of the past five years, traveling to Italy for 1-4 weeks team teaching a group of students from a variety of backgrounds.