Stephanie Jernigan MD, FAAP

Dr. Stephanie Jernigan has been a practicing pediatric nephrologist since 1999 after training in pediatrics at University of Alabama at Birmingham and in pediatric nephrology at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her medical career has included working in general pediatrics and private practice pediatric nephrology in Atlanta. In 2012, she joined Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta full time where she is now a professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric nephrolgy.

Dr. Jernigan has been active in the dialysis and transplant program at Children’s since starting her career, and has served as the Medical Director of Dialysis for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta since 2012.

Outside of her nephrology practice, Dr. Jernigan serves as the Campus Medical Director of Egleston Hospital, which will be moving to the new 446 bed Arthur M Blank Children's Hospital at the end of September 2024.