Dr. James R. Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas. He completed his internship and residency program in pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia. He continued his training with a Fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics and Masters in Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama. He has been on the faculty at MUSC since 1997.

He began his academic career working on lead poisoning and pesticide exposure. He is a past member of the Committee on Environmental Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) where he co-authored a policy statement and technical report on pediatric pesticide exposure as well as contributing chapters for the first four editions of the AAP Handbook on Pediatric Environmental Health. Dr. Roberts served in the past as a consultant to the South Carolina Lead poisoning prevention program to develop a comprehensive lead-screening program in Charleston using geographic information systems. He is a co-author in the CDC guidelines: Managing Elevated Blood Lead Levels among Young Children. He is co-editor of US EPA Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning, 6th edition and is a primary author on “Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers”, published by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF).

He currently is the Director of a pediatric practice-based research network in South Carolina. He is funded by the NIH for a multi-state trial aimed at improving pediatricians’ ability to manage childhood obesity and he is also a Co-investigator with the ECHO Cohort study. As a teacher, he has received awards for the Outpatient Educator from the pediatrics residents at MUSC.