Constance Battle, M.D.

Constance Urciolo Battle is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at SPHHS and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, SMHS.

Children with disabilities, developmental delays or chronic illnesses have had their journeys eased at least a bit because Professor Battle has been such an ardent advocate on their behalf. For more than 20 years, she was CEO and Medical Director of the Hospital for Children here in Washington, one of relatively few hospitals in the nation devoted exclusively to pediatric rehabilitation. In that capacity, she ensured that the hospital kept pace with the latest technology and built the institution into a model for similar facilities. In addition to her SPHHS appointment, Dr. Battle is a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at GW's School of Medicine and a member of the academic staff at Children's National Medical Center. In the early 1990s, as a Fellow in the Creating Healthier Communities Fellowship of the Healthcare Forum, Dr. Battle focused on adolescent mothers with HIV/AIDS and their children, a project that evolved into the Minority Adolescent Community Initiative. In recent years, she has transferred her managerial leadership skills to new fields, serving as the Executive Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Executive Director of the Foundation for the National Institute of Health. Dr. Battle was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine and earned the President's Medal for Distinguished Community Service of the Catholic University. At GW, she won the Alumni Volunteer Award in 1994 and the Undergraduate Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005 and in 2008.

• Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry), Trinity College, 1963 • Doctor of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 1967 • Pediatrics Residency, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.

• PubH 101 – Introduction to Public Health and Health Services, Department of Prevention and Community Health • PubH 102 – Biological Basis of Public Health, Department of Prevention and Community Health • PubH 374 – Children and Youth with Special Needs • PubH 381 – Child Development and Public Health • Guest lecturer in courses at the Department of Prevention and Community Health such as The Introduction to Preventive Medicine; The History & Philosophy of Public Health,

Dr. Battle served as president of the Association for the Care of Children's Health, an advocacy group dedicated to psychosocially sound, developmentally appropriate and family-centered health care for children. She has also served on the board of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions; as chair of the Scientific Review Board of Children's Hospice International; and on the advisory board of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health. Other service activities have supported the work of the American Academy of Pediatrics Developmental Disabilities Section, the American Hospital Association and the DC Hospital Association.