David Malebranche
{{short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = David Malebranche
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| alma_mater = Princeton University, BA, 1990
Emory University School of Medicine, MD, 1996
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, MPH, 2001
| fields = Internal Medicine
| workplaces = Emory University School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Morehouse School of Medicine
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=y|1969|02|20}}
| birth_place = Schenectady, New York
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David J. Malebranche (born February 20, 1969) is an American internal medicine physician, researcher, and public health advocate who specializes in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Early life and education
Malebranche was born in Schenectady, New York to Roger and Donna Malebranche.{{Cite news|last=Wilkin|first=Jeff|date=February 23, 2020|title=Final words: Roger Malebranche, former St. Clare's surgery head, letter writer, signs off with last letter to editor|work=The Daily Gazette|url=https://dailygazette.com/2020/02/23/final-words-malebranche-signs-off-with-last-letter-to-editor/|access-date=February 21, 2021}} He is a first-generation Haitian-American and his mother is European-American. His father, a surgeon, was born in Anse-à-Veau, Haiti and came to the United States in 1961.
Malebranche received a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University in 1990 and a medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in 1996. He completed residencies at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, during which time he earned a master's degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Career
In 2001, Malebranche was appointed to the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Medicine until 2012.{{Cite news|last=Staples|first=Gracie Bonds|date=August 31, 2017|title=How improved medicines helped fuel the HIV epidemic|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|url=http://specials.myajc.com/black-men-HIV-3/|access-date=February 21, 2021}} From 2012 to 2015, he was a primary care physician for the University of Pennsylvania Student Health Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2021|title=Dr. David J. Malebranche|url=https://beenhere.org/2018/02/20/dr-david-j-malebranche/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221180234/https://beenhere.org/2018/02/20/dr-david-j-malebranche/|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=National Black Justice Coalition}} He returned to Georgia in 2015 to work for WellStar Health System as the infirmary physician for the Cobb County Adult Detention Center in Marietta, Georgia. In 2017, he joined the faculty of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta as an associate professor of medicine and medical director of student and employee health.{{Cite web|date=February 21, 2021|title=About the Author|url=http://standingonhisshoulders.com/about.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Standing on His Shoulders|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619123759/http://www.standingonhisshoulders.com:80/about.html |archive-date=2015-06-19 }}
Malebranche has published articles in medical and public health journals on the topic of HIV in the Black community, an area of expertise which he has discussed in documentaries, news interviews, speeches, and educational programming.{{Cite web|date=January 4, 2021|title=The Southern HIV Epidemic|url=https://sma.org/podcasts/the-southern-hiv-epidemic/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221182454/https://sma.org/podcasts/the-southern-hiv-epidemic/|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Southern Medical Association}} He contributed an essay to Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today,{{cite book|title=Family affair : what It means to be African American today|editor=Gil L. Robertson IV.|publisher=Bolden|location=Chicago|year=2009|pages=xv, 407|isbn=978-1-932841-35-0 |oclc=234438028|lccn= 2008045716 }} a 2009 anthology edited by Gil Robertson IV.{{cite news |url=http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/04/20/2_FAMILY_AFFAIR.ART_ART_04-20-09_D3_6JDJB4U.html?sid=101 |title=Editor hopes collection of essays stirs dialogue |last=Williams |first=Sherri |date=April 20, 2009 |work=The Columbus Dispatch |access-date=20 January 2010 |archive-date=26 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126182428/https://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/04/20/2_FAMILY_AFFAIR.ART_ART_04-20-09_D3_6JDJB4U.html?sid=101 |url-status=dead }} In 2015, he published Standing on His Shoulders, a memoir about life lessons he learned from his father.{{Cite web|date=November 11, 2015|title=New Books: Standing on His Shoulders|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/book-report/standing-his-shoulders|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221191937/https://paw.princeton.edu/book-report/standing-his-shoulders|archive-date=February 21, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly}}
References
External links
- [https://morehousehealthcare.com/physicians/medicine/malebranche-david.html About David Malebranche], Morehouse Healthcare, 2021
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Category:American people of Haitian descent
Category:Physicians from Georgia (U.S. state)