Kenisha Campbell, MD, MPH

Kenisha Campbell, MD, MPH, is board certified in Adolescent Medicine and Pediatrics and is an Adolescent Medicine specialist and the Director of Adolescent Medicine Outpatient Clinical Services at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She specializes in treating teenagers with eating disorders and addressing reproductive and sexual health care. She is also working on ways to improve the quality of care adolescents receive.

Dr. Campbell finds her specialty rewarding because of the major developments that patients make during this phase of life. “Adolescence is such an exciting time of development and I enjoy being able to help adolescents and their families navigate this critical period and to learn the skills necessary to reach their full potential,” she says.

Dr. Campbell said she feels particularly passionate about treating patients with eating disorders. “We utilize a multidisciplinary approach to support families in restoring their child’s health, and the majority of our patients get better,” Dr. Campbell adds. “It is also rewarding to take care of patient’s reproductive and sexual health needs to ensure that they are able to make healthy, safe and informed choices about their bodies and their relationships.”

“CHOP as a healthcare system cares about each individual child and adolescent and works together with the family unit to achieve the best outcome possible for your child or adolescent,” Dr. Campbell says. And she’s excited to see adolescent health issues getting that same kind of attention from the medical community as a whole. “I envision that adolescent health will be integrated throughout medicine,” she says. “Every subspecialty will understand the critical importance of the adolescent stage of development and how it impacts overall health.”

Education and experience

Dr. Campbell earned her medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, Rochester, New York.  She continued her training with a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. She also holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Cincinnati School of Public Health.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Campbell is the director of CHOP’s Adolescent Medicine Outpatient Clinical Services and also serves as an Associate Professor of clinical pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Attending Physician

Director, Adolescent Medicine Outpatient Clinical Services

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

2019-2020, Physician Leadership Program, Selected Participant, CHOP

2018, Association of American Medical Colleges, Minority Faculty Leadership Development Seminar, Office of Inclusion & Diversity travel award recipient, University of Pennsylvania

2017-2018, Best Doctors in America

2017-2018, Leading Success Cohort 17 Program Selected Participant, University of Pennsylvania

2017, Penn Center of Excellence Consortium 5th Annual Conference selected participant, University of Pennsylvania

2016, Association of American Medical Colleges, Leadership and Management Foundations for Academic Medicine and Science Seminar Office of Inclusion & Diversity Travel Award, University of Pennsylvania

2014, Association of American Medical Colleges, Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar Participant

2011, American Pediatric Association Region V Trainee Abstract Award Recipient

Academic and Institutional Committees

2019-present, The Alliance of Minority Physicians (AMP) Executive Board, Professional Development Chair

2018-present, Multicultural Physicians' Alliance Professional Development Committee

2018-present, Specially Protected Information (SPI) subcommittee of the Clinical Documentation Standards Committee

2017-present, Core Faculty Leadership, Adolescent Health Multidisciplinary Fellowship Program

2016-present, Division of Adolescent Medicine Clinical Care Committee

2016-present, CQI Project Member/Advisor, Increasing Rates of Chlamydia Screening in Adolescent Females in a Primary Care Practice, Cobbs Creek Pediatric Care Center

2016-present, PrEP Task Force Committee, CHOP Primary Care Network

2015-present, Leader, Adolescent Specialty Care Medical Directors Group, Division of Adolescent Medicine

2015-present, Fellows Clinical Competency Committee, Division of Adolescent Medicine

2014-present, Faculty Participant, Minority Physicians Alliance Resident Recruitment Dinners, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania

2013-present, Division of Adolescent Medicine Quality and Patient Safety Team

2012-present, The Division of Adolescent Medicine Clinical Leadership Team

2011-present, Eating Disorders Workgroup, The Division of Adolescent Medicine

Memberships in Professional Organizations

2013-present, North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
2008-present, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
 - 2018-present, President, Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter