Karla Fredricks, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of the Program for Immigrant and Refugee Child Health (PIRCH) at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Fredricks began her career at Federally Qualified Health Centers with large immigrant populations, working as a primary care physician and medical director. She also volunteered with international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders to serve displaced populations affected by humanitarian crises across the globe. Since 2018, Dr. Fredricks has been the director of PIRCH, a clinical provider for newly arrived children in the Houston area, and one of the faculty advisors for the student-run Baylor College of Medicine Human Rights and Asylum Clinic. In addition to working locally in Texas to ensure that immigrant children have access to high quality health services, Dr. Fredricks co-coordinates the national Specialty Care Access Network (SCAN) to facilitate access to subspecialty care for newly arrived children with special health care needs.