National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
Dr. Correa is a Medical Officer at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Correa received a MS in chemistry and a MD from the University of California San Diego, and he went on to receive an MPH and PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He trained in pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital and at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining CDC in 1998, he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Epidemiology at JHU (1987–1998). He is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology (2004) and Global Health (2007) at Emory University School of Public Health. His research work focuses on the epidemiology of congenital heart defects and diabetes in pregnancy.