Theiline T. Gborkorquellie, MD, MHS, FAAP, is a board-certified community pediatrician at Children’s Health Center at THEARC, which is part of the Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health at Children’s National Hospital. Dr. Gborkorquellie is also an Assistant Program Director, Director of Health Equity Education, and Assistant Director of the Leadership in Advocacy, Under-resourced Communities and Health Equity (LAUnCH) Track for the Pediatric Residency Program; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Co-Director of the Community & Urban Health Scholarly Concentration at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; an affiliate faculty member of the Child Health Advocacy Institute (CHAI); and the Pediatric Consultant for the DC Mother-Baby Wellness (DCMBW) program. Dr. Gborkorquellie also serves as Co-Lead for the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) Confronting Racism Action Team (CRAT) Anti-Racism Faculty Development Workgroup.

Dr. Gborkorquellie has dedicated her career to advocacy and research related to mental health, community health, health equity, and reducing health disparities in under-resourced communities. As a general academic pediatrician, she is also passionate about teaching, medical education, curriculum design, and mentorship. Dr. Gborkorquellie’s work has been recognized on a local, regional, national, and international scale with numerous awards, invited presentations, as well as in peer-reviewed publications.  

In her role as Director of Health Equity Education, Dr. Gborkorquellie is actively engaged in creating, evaluating, and implementing a health equity curriculum for the pediatric residency program through the Building Equity in Graduate Medical Education (BEING) Initiative. She is leading the development of a curriculum to train pediatric faculty to teach and model health equity principles. Dr. Gborkorquellie is also directs the BEING Pediatric Resident Service-Learning Curriculum aimed at improving social accountability and community engagement of the residency program. This curriculum is nationally recognized as a novel health education approach to address racism and was commended by the American Board of Pediatrics for outstanding and innovative curriculum design. With a multi-disciplinary team, Dr. Gborkorquellie co-developed and co-taught a racial health equity curriculum created for faculty. The manuscript was published in the MedEdPORTAL Anti-racism Education Collection and received the MedEdPORTAL Top 10 of 2023 honor for one of the top 10 most downloaded publications in 2023.

As Pediatric Consultant for DCMBW, Dr. Gborkorquellie is leading the development of a robust program that follows the mother-baby dyad of under-resourced postpartum women and children from birth to 3 years of age, with a focus on mental health. DCMBW launched at THEARC in 2022 and provides embedded no cost screening, prevention, and treatment for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) as well as care coordination to address social determinants of health. Dr. Gborkorquellie’s work on this novel partnership was presented at the 18^th World Congress for the World Association for Infant Mental Health. As a result of her work on these health initiatives, Dr. Gborkorquellie was selected for the 2023 Top 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum which recognizes leaders who have persevered in strengthening their communities and reducing health disparities amid ongoing challenges within the healthcare system.

Dr. Gborkorquellie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Health Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, her Master of Health Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her Medical Doctorate from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences with a focus on Community and Urban Health. She completed her pediatrics residency at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. She is a graduate of the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program at the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development.