Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery is the Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor college of Medicine and the Texas Children’s Medical Center for International Adoption in Houston, Texas. Dr. Montgomery has served as a physician for over 10 years and has extensive experience in treating adopted children. She also works with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative.
Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D., M.P.H., completed her medical school training at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, her Master’s of Public Health degree at Saint Louis University, and her pediatric residency at University of Louisville. She then worked in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville for three years. She joined the faculty at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Division of General Academic Pediatrics, in 2003. She was attracted to the position because of the opportunity to be the Director of the Pediatric Advocacy and Community Education (P.A.C.E.) program for pediatric residents, which promotes partnership with approximately 20 community organizations that also serve and advocate for children’s needs. The position at Saint Louis University also allowed her to become the Director of the Foreign Adoption and Educational Services (F.A.C.E.S.) program for two years, to design and implement an interactive web-based and self-testing curriculum for the Department of Pediatrics, and to coordinate the pediatric service at La Clinica, a free Latino community clinic.
Dr. Montgomery has had a long-standing interest in international health, and was the Director of the Medicine Abroad Program in the Department of Pediatrics, and volunteered to coordinate and expand the Haiti Initiative, a project sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics that brings pediatric residents to the U.S. for training observerships. She completed approximately eight medical mission trips including trips to Malawi (east Africa), Peru (South America), Dominican Republic (Caribbean), and Romania and Moldova (Eastern Europe), before she joined Baylor College of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Retrovirology & Global Health, and the Texas Children’s Center for International Adoption.
She sees HIV+ and pediatric inpatients and outpatients at Texas Children’s Hospital, Ben Taub Hospital, and the Thomas Street clinic of the Harris County Health Department. She also works extensively overseas with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is member of the Executive Committee for the Section on International Child Health.