Dr. Dodgen received his MD degree from Mercer University School of Medicine. He then went on to complete his general pediatric residency training at Arkansas Children's Hospital before completing his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. Since completing his fellowship, he has served on the pediatric faculty at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in addition to receiving multiple teaching awards. He now practices pediatric cardiology full time in Columbus, Georgia, with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology and is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. In his free time, he can be found coaching 8U soccer or middle school robotics with his two boys, Amos (8) and AJ (11) or spending time with his wife, Amber.