Desiree B. Pendergrass

Desiree B. Pendergrass, MD, MPH is board certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine. She earned a BA in chemistry from Texas Christian University and a medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now the McGovern School of Medicine). Dr. Pendergrass completed her pediatric internship at the University of Missouri at Columbia and her pediatric residency at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. After several years in private practice in Oklahoma City, she felt called to pursue medicine at a population level and completed a general preventive medicine and public health residency at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (now the Bloomberg School of Public Health) in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time, she also completed a Master of Public Health with a concentration in maternal child health. Prior to joining ACGME as an Accreditation Field Representative, she worked in several areas within medicine including academic medicine, publ