Professor Claudia Morris
Dr. Claudia R. Morris, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and holds the Wilbur Fisk Glenn Jr. Distinguished Faculty Chair for Clinical & Translational Research. She is the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Director and Director of the Emory+Children’s Center for Clinical & Translational Research. Dr. Morris has been actively involved in clinical and translational research for over 25 years. She has a successful track record of extramural funding, clinical trials leadership, high-impact publications and mentorship, best known for her research in sickle cell disease (SCD). She discovered that an arginine deficiency in SCD is the consequence of hemolysis, associated with adverse clinical outcomes including pain, pulmonary hypertension and mortality risk that may be attenuated by arginine replacement therapy. She is an advocate for precision nutrition that targets distinctive nutritional requirements that arise from acute and chronic diseases.