Dr. Davis is a board-certified family physician with more than 20 years of clinical expertise in the acute and chronic management of adults and children. In addition, she is a widely published, NIH-funded clinical researcher, whose efforts focus on obesity-related maternal and child health outcomes and in comparative effectiveness research in maternal health and tobacco use disorder.
Much of her work has focused on understanding the perinatal determinants of obesity, maternal health inequities and long-term cardiovascular health in women. She has contributed to the field specifically by investigating the perinatal, cultural, and behavioral factors associated with the racial and socioeconomic inequities in obesity among women that have persisted for decades.
- BS, Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993
- MD, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), 1997
- Family Medicine Residency, Overlook Hospital, 2000
- Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
- MPH, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2002
- General Internal Medicine and National Research Service Award Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Education & Training
Lamb JE, Stone AX, Davis EM, James AJ. Visual learning equity: A course auditing system of skin color in preclinical medical education. Family Medicine. 2023.
US Preventive Services Task Force, Davidson KW, Mangione CM, Barry MJ, Cabana MD, Caughey AB, Davis EM, Donahue KE, et al. Actions to transform US Preventive Services Task Force methods to mitigate systemic racism in clinical preventive services. JAMA. 2021.
Schnitzer K, Senft N, Tindle HA, Kelley JHK, Notier AE, Davis EM, Rigotti NA, Douaihy A, Levy DE, Si DE, et al. Understanding engagement behaviors and rapport building in tobacco cessation telephone counseling: An analysis of audio-recorded counseling calls. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2021.
- Diplomat, American Board of Family Physicians, 2000-present
- Member, Institute of Medicine Dissemination of Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines Committee, 2011-2013
- Member, North American Association for the Study of Obesity, 2011-present
- Educational Chair, American Heart Association Executive Leadership Advisory Committee, 2012-present
- New Pittsburgh Courier’s 2013 Women of Excellence Award, 2013
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching-Small Group Facilitator Award, 2014
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Leadership and Service Award, 2014
- Member, Institute of Medicine Epigenetics and Obesity in Childhood Committee, 2014-2015
