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CHIVON STUBBS, M.D.

The little girl had cerebral palsy, and her father spent all of his time and money caring for

her, never seeing to his own health. Then he learned about the free clinic founded and run
by Morehouse School of Medicine students and residents. There, at what is now known as

the HEAL Clinic, he learned he had asthma, and he received the care and medication he
needed but had never been able to afford.

Since 2011 the HEAL Clinic has made an enormous difference to the impoverished and
underserved in Atlanta. And it has made an enormous difference for future doctors

like Chivon Stubbs.

Stubbs grew up in Southwest Atlanta near a community hospital that was a very large
training site for MSM students. They tended to the sick and needy in the surrounding
neighborhoods — until it was forced to close. Stubbs saw how that hurt the health of

the people around her, and this spurred her to pursue family medicine at MSM.

She volunteered during the earliest days of the HEAL Clinic.

“It took so much work to rally resources and get this up and running,” says Stubbs,

who went on to become a resident at MSM. “But right away I could see we were
making a difference in people’s lives.”

She met so many patients like the man with asthma — patients who had never before
been to the doctor and who were incredibly grateful for the care they received at the clinic.

“One woman told me, ‘You made me feel like a queen for a day,’” says Stubbs.

“Seeing the impact we could make in people’s lives helped me come to the realization
that this is what I want to do with the rest of my life.”