Robert Doughty, MD, PhD
Dean
Nemours Center for Medical Leadership
Dr. Doughty was recently appointed Dean of the newly-created Nemours Center for Medical Leadership, a national resource for innovative leadership training of physicians. For over two decades he has designed and facilitated seminars to enhance leadership and management skills for future medical leaders. He is nationally recognized for his pioneering work in the development of experiential workshops for residents and chief residents. Over the past eighteen years, more than 1300 pediatric chief residents have taken his four day experiential leadership training course designed to prepare them for their upcoming role as Chief Resident.
Dr. Doughty graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Immunology. After training in pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he served as Director of the Pediatric Residency Program of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Associate Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. Subsequently, Dr. Doughty joined Nemours, an organization nationally renowned for providing health services to children, where he served for two decades as chief medical executive of the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and Nemours Children's Clinics,
His leadership accomplishments at Nemours include: expanding the duPont Hospital for Children from an orthopedic institution to a full service children's hospital; establishing a top-ranked pediatric residency program; facilitating a three-way partnership affiliation between Nemours, Thomas Jefferson University, and the Christiana Care Health System; creating a network of pediatric sites for underserved populations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida; and implementation of the electronic medical record and data warehouse.
Dr. Doughty is Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College. He is the author of numerous publications on both pediatric rheumatology and experiential training of physicians.
