Current Positions

• Charles Howard Candler Professor, Human Health, Emory University

• Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Anthropology, Emory University

• Director, Emory Center for the Study of Human Health

• Co-Director, Emory Predictive Health Institute

Dr. Michelle Lampl is an internationally recognized scholar whose research identified that normal growth is a pattern of saltation and stasis. Dr. Lampl’s observations prompted a paradigm shift in fundamental ideas about normal growth biology and launched research investigating mechanisms that control the sudden growth bursts experienced by healthy infants and children at all ages.

A physician scientist, Dr. Lampl is recognized for her strategic leadership creating innovative, collaborative education and research programs in the emerging science of human health, including Predictive Health and Developmental Origins of Health. She is the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Human Health, where innovative cross-disciplinary educational programs bring the best assets of the University to the classroom. Dr. Lampl is also co-Director of the Emory Predictive Health Institute, a comprehensive approach to evidence-based influences on human health aiming to maintain health and pre-empt disease.

Dr. Lampl is the recipient of the Emory Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Emory College, the Emory University Exemplary Teacher Award, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Lampl has collaborated with scientists, educators, and corporate foundations internationally to further knowledge related to fetal and infant growth. Dr. Lampl earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.