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 in 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
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 of the Wake County
Medical Society. The program encompasses approximately 75
primary care practices and 58,000 Medicaid patients.
She 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 has been
active in local, state, and national public health and
preventive medicine organizations. She has served on the
board of directors for a local teen clinic and a Community
Advisory Committee for a Lay Health Advisor Program for
Latinos. She completed programs of the North Carolina
Medical Society Foundation Leadership College and the
North Carolina Center for International Understanding –
Latino Health Coalition. She serves on the University of
North Carolina Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory
Committee. She has been a fellow of ACPM since 2005, is a
member of the awards committee, and chaired the Young
Physician Section and the Preventive Medicine 2008
committees. She was the 2008 recipient of the ACPM
William Kane Rising Star Award
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