Joseph W. St. Geme Iii BS, MD

Joseph W. St. Geme III, MD, received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He completed a pediatric residency and chief residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and pursued postdoctoral training in microbiology and infectious diseases at Stanford University.

From 1992 to 2005, Dr. St. Geme was a member of the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. There he served as Director of pediatric infectious diseases and co-leader of the Pediatric Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Research Unit. In 2005, Dr. St. Geme was recruited to Duke University, Durham, NC, where he was the James B. Duke professor and Chairman of Pediatrics, the Chief Medical Officer of Duke Children’s Hospital, and a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology.

In 2013, Dr. St. Geme relocated to Philadelphia to assume new responsibilities as the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, he is also chairman of Pediatrics and professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics.