Elizabeth Tilson
Dr. Tilson is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics and is a Fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She currently provides primary care in the Wake County Human Services Child Health Clinic and is the Medical Director of Community Care of Wake/Johnston Counties; a care management, quality improvement program that is part of the statewide program, Community Care of North Carolina. Her local network encompasses approximately 100 primary care practice sites and 80,000 Medicaid patients.
Dr. Tilson received her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and then completed her medical degree and Pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After Pediatric Residency training, she worked as a primary care physician in the Child Health Clinic at the Wake County Human Services-Public Health Center in Raleigh, NC. She then furthered her training at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill and completed a Master of Public Health, a residency in Preventive Medicine, and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Cancer Control and Education Program. She served as chief resident for the UNC Preventive Medicine Program and received the John Atkinson Ferrell Distinguished Preventive Medicine Resident Award. After Preventive Medicine training, she joined the research faculty at Duke University Medical Center in the Cancer Prevention, Detection, and Control Research Program. After 3 years at Duke, she returned to work in Wake County in 2003 and has remained there since.
She has been active in local, state, and national pediatric, public health and preventive medicine organizations. On the local level, she has served on the board of directors for a local teen clinic, a Community Advisory Committee for a Lay Health Advisor Program for Latinos, and the physical health sub-committee of the 2010 Wake County Community Health Assessment. On a statewide level, she completed programs of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation Leadership College and the North Carolina Center for International Understanding. She serves on the Board of Directors for the NC Healthy Start Foundation and is a member of the North Carolina Pediatric Society, Executive Committee of the NC Academy of Preventive Medicine, and the University of North Carolina Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee. She received the 2010 UNC John Atkinson Ferrell Award for Excellence in Teaching Preventive Medicine. On the national level, she has been a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine since 2005 and chaired the Young Physician Section and the Preventive Medicine 2008 committee. She currently chairs the Awards Committee and serves as the Southeast Regent on the ACPM Board of Regents. She was the 2008 recipient of the ACPM William Kane Rising Star Award.
