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Dr. Dennar is an established clinician, clinical educator, clinical administrator, and clinical scientist

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Dr. Princess Dennar

Dr. Princess Dennar

Dr. Princess E. Dennar is a Combined Internist and Pediatrician, also known as “Med-Peds’  physician practicing at Premium Care Medical Center. Dr. Dennar spent her early years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated salutatorian at Overbook High School in 1994. She went on to earn a B.S. in Biology from Haverford College in 1998 and an M.D. degree from MCP-Hahnemann (Drexel University) Medical School in 2002. Subsequently, she completed the four-year combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Dennar is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics. In 2007, she worked as an Internist and a Pediatrician at the Philadelphia Health Department, where she helped to implement healthcare safety-net-services for underserved communities. In the same year, Dr. Dennar served as Director of Community Health Care Education with United African Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization in Philadelphia, and was instrumental in developing the organization’s obesity prevention and safe-sex projects for adolescent females in inner-cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey.

In 2008, Dr. Dennar relocated to New Orleans and joined the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Tulane University Hospital and School of Medicine as the first African American female Residency Program Director at Tulane. She was the Program Director for the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program for over thirteen years and the Medical Director for Tulane Internal Medicine Primary Care Clinic and the Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care at University Medical Center in New Orleans.

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Dr. Dennar was featured on Blackdoctors.org, which has been reported as the world’s largest and most comprehensive online health resource specifically targeted to African Americans in an episode entitled, “Is your doctor really on your side? Dr. Princess Dennar weighs in! 15, Feb 2019.
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Dr. Dennar was featured as a medical expert for an online panel discussion hosted by the Times-Picayune of New Orleans that focused on the coronavirus vaccines and their importance in ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dr. Dennar was featured in an article in Medium written by Dr. Chioma Udemgba about the importance of mentorship. “Not All Heroes Wear Capes”13, May 2021
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Truglio, J., Palermo, A., Hess, L., Dennar, P., Eyssallene, A. Developing an Anti-Racist Residency Recruitment Process. SGIM Forum; 43.1. January 2020.
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Dennar, P. “How to Combat Racism in the American Medical System”. Kevin MD 13, June 2021

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She also served as a Medical Director to a historic clinic in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward in 2008, as part of a more significant effort to return a functional health infrastructure to an area that Hurricane Katrina heavily damaged in 2005. Dr. Dennar played a substantial role in obtaining NCQA recognition, a prestigious health care accreditation status, for two prominent clinics in New Orleans. One of which was Tulane’s residency clinics, making it one of the nation’s few residency clinics to obtain what is considered the industry’s gold standard status. Under her leadership, she ushered a higher standard of professionalism and decency by ending the abhorrent practice of herd-scheduling for low-income patients and created the Transition Care Clinic (TCC) to facilitate the successful incorporation of hospitalized patients into the clinics seamlessly.

Dr. Dennar has been instrumental in increasing the diversity among residents in the Med-Peds residency program and providing mentorship to numerous minority students at Tulane. As a program director, Dr. Dennar has ensured that her residency program runs the gamut of diversity and inclusion and consistently inspires underrepresented minorities and women to experience their fullest potential as physicians. Since her tenure in 2008, she has inspired each graduating class of residents to aid in increasing the presence of women and underrepresented minorities in subspecialty fields that typically do not have significant representation. Many of her mentees went on to complete fellowships programs in medical research, infectious disease, cardiology, rheumatology, palliative care, obesity medicine, and allergy/immunology, to name a few.

In 2011, Dr. Dennar developed the State of Louisiana’s only Daycare Developmental Surveillance Program (DDSP), a unique child development initiative, and became certified both nationally and locally as a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) through the National Training Institute for Child Health Care Consultants at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The goal of DDSP is to educate daycare centers on how to complete culturally appropriate developmental screening questionnaires for low-income families with limited access to primary care.

In 2014, Dr. Dennar became the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Premium Care Medical Center, LLC. She was responsible for the company’s innovative vision of delivering combined wellness and health care. She is the mastermind of Louisiana’s first Direct Patient Care Membership program to provide affordable care to the community regardless of their socioeconomic status.

As an academician and human rights advocate, Dr. Dennar has integrated advocacy and community service in various medical education curricula. She has led her residents to yearly organized community services to help tackle marginalized homeless adolescents who often battle with the aftermath of abuse. She has integrated community prevention services and educational services to improve the access of care to persons in New Orleans through grassroots community health fairs to get patients linked to a medical home. She designed a residency program that cultivates well-rounded inclusive physicians who understand that the best way to treat and develop trust within the community is to become a part of the community.

She has been a motivational speaker and guest to undergraduate underrepresented minorities and women at various universities, guiding those interested in navigating the terrain of healthcare in the future. She has been a constant “go-to-on-the-spot” mentor for many undergraduate and medical students seeking support and tutelage to overcome the challenges and barriers they face as underrepresented minorities and women.

In 2018, Dr. Dennar was inducted into the Overbrook High School Hall of Fame in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an honor awarded to previous notable alumni like Wilt Chamberlain and Will Smith for overcoming great odds to achieve success and for their contributions to their community.

Dr. Dennar is an established clinician, clinical educator, clinical administrator, and clinical scientist who focuses on health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities by developing evidence-based interventions in primary care and post-graduate medical education settings. She aims to promote a diverse workforce and reduce health inequalities. Through her experiences, Dr. Dennar developed strong leadership skills and learned how to interact with a wide array of individuals while balancing several different jobs. In these leadership roles, she served as PI and /or faculty advisor for several AAP and DHH funded community grants that focus on reducing health disparities among disadvantaged children, adolescents, and minorities in the primary care setting. Through the partnership of Xavier University, her most recent research, funded through NIH, focused on promoting informed decisions about prostate cancer screening and treatment among African American men.

She is a tireless advocate for patients, medical education, and equity in health care for vulnerable populations. She relishes her proudest accomplishment of raising her beautiful daughters with her husband. She is undoubtedly the quintessential embodiment of the better parts of a physician.

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