Dr. Michelle Staples-Horne is the Medical Director for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. She received her MD degree from Morehouse School of Medicine and her MPH from Emory University. She holds both BS and MS degrees in Biology from Clark Atlanta University. She received the ACCP's Armond Start Award in 2013, the NCCHC's Bernard P. Harrison Award in 2016, and the ACA's ER Cass Award in 2023. Dr. Staples-Horne serves on the NCCHC Juvenile Health Committee and on the ACGME Correctional Health Advisory Council to develop a Correctional Medicine Fellowship program. She has served on numerous advisory boards to organizations and provided educational training and legal consultation for academic institutions, state, and local jurisdictions. Dr. Staples-Horne has authored more than 25 publications for several scientific journals, magazine articles and book chapters on correctional health care.