Richard W. Childs MD

Dr. Childs received his M.D. in 1991 from Georgetown University and completed his internship, residency, and a Chief Residency in internal medicine at the University of Florida. Subsequently, Dr. Childs arrived at the NIH to complete a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute followed by a fellowship in hematology at the NHLBI. Dr. Childs has been an active duty officer in the United Stated Commissioned Corps since 1995 and was promoted to the rank of Captain in 2009. From December 2014 through February 2015, he deployed to Monrovia, Liberia as a part of the United States Ebola crisis response in West Africa, where he served as the Chief Medical Officer caring for Ebola patients in the Monrovia Medical Unit (MMU).
Richard Childs, M.D., Rear Admiral (RADM), United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and Assistant U.S. Surgeon General, is the Clinical Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Division of Intramural Research (DIR) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, he is responsible for the oversight of the clinical research portfolio of the NHLBI DIR and serves as a clinical policy advisor to the Scientific Director.