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ECU Physicians is the medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. With more than 650 medical professionals, we are the largest practice in eastern North Carolina. For years, patients and physicians from all over the region and state have trusted our proven record of providing excellent health care.

Pediatric specialist joins ECU Physicians

Schmidt

GREENVILLE (4/21/08)—A pediatric critical care specialist has joined the faculty of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Dr. Jeffrey Schmidt has joined the Department of Pediatrics as a clinical associate professor. He comes to Greenville from Colorado, where he was a pediatric critical care specialist and hospitalist.

Schmidt has a medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, a master’s degree in pharmacology and toxicology from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and studio art from Grinnell College in Iowa. He completed residency training in pediatrics at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.

Schmidt is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. His clinical and research interests are caring for critically ill children with cancer, pediatric sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome, pediatric neuropharmacology and modulation of molecular inflammatory response pathways in traumatic and ischemic brain injury.

He provides care for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit at Pitt County Memorial Hospital under the auspices of ECU Physicians, the group practice of the Brody School of Medicine.

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