
Princess Dennar
Advocacy Advisory Council Member
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.