Jerome A. Paulson, MD

Jerome A. Paulson, MD is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and of Environmental & Occupational Health at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. He spent the majority of his career teaching and practicing primary care in the system that bridges Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He also taught in the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. He is the founder of the American Academy of Pediatrics Program on Climate Change and a founding member of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action (VCCA). He volunteers as a consultant to the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health fostering the development of state affiliated climate advocacy organizations. Dr. Paulson holds a B.S. in Biochemistry with Honors and with General Honors from the University of Maryland, and an M.D. from Duke University. He did his residency training in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals and Sinai Hospital, both in Baltimore, as well as a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics at Sinai Hospital. He lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife, Gwen Paulson.