Hope Rhodes-Pretlow, MD, MPH

Community Pediatrician

Washington, DC

United States, North America

Cohort Year:

2019

Bio

Dr. Hope E. Rhodes has served as a community pediatrician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC since 2010. In 2021, she became the Medical Director of the Children’s Health Center at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus and the Mobile Medical Program. She is committed to providing quality, culturally competent care to children from under-resourced communities who are disparately impacted by various health outcomes. She has harnessed the power of community partnerships to co-lead many initiatives from within the primary care medical home including the Healthy Generations Program and reproductive health programming. During the COVID19 pandemic, she revitalized the Mobile Medical program to bridge gaps in care for families throughout D.C. alongside neighborhood champions and partners from the education sector.

She is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a senior Health Equity Atlantic Fellow, which is a global community committed to addressing various forms of inequities.