Earl Stewart, Jr., MD, FACP
Earl Stewart, Jr., MD, FACP
Internal Medicine Physician
Wellstar Medical Group of Wellstar Health System, Inc.
EARL STEWART, JR., M.D., FACP, is an Internal Medicine Physician with Wellstar Medical Group in Atlanta, Georgia. At Wellstar, he serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Provider and Team Member Engagement Sub-committee of the Wellstar Diversity Council, fostering efforts to create a mentoring program for new health care providers and staff from multi-cultural and multi-ethnic backgrounds based on age, gender, and race. He was recently appointed to the Visibility Advisory Committee of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a collective supporting a three-year campaign that implements tenets of diversity aimed at improving public awareness of Internal Medicine and the influence of the specialty among health and public policy leaders as a health care delivery mode. He is a 2009 alumnus of Mercer University and later attended the historic Meharry Medical College’s School of Medicine, graduating with multiple honors in May of 2013. He completed residency training in Categorical Internal Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and its affiliated hospitals. While in residency, he served on the Rhode Island Hospital’s Diversity Committee as well as a leader for the Brown University Minority Housestaff Association (BMHA) and Brown’s Office of Diversity and Multi-Cultural Affairs (ODMA), engaging in events and practices to recruit more African-Americans and Hispanics into the field of medicine. Prior to joining Wellstar, he served as a primary care physician in rural Thomaston, Georgia, where he served on the local acute-care hospital’s Quality Oversight Committee and started the then largest Buprenorphine Treatment Program in Upson County, Georgia, to combat the opioid crisis in that community and simultaneously started a Walk With A Doc chapter for Thomaston and Upson County. He also served during this tenure as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia Campus, through which appointment he was tasked with teaching osteopathic medical students during their primary care Internal Medicine rotations. In similitude, he had a partnership with the Columbus, Georgia-based Three Rivers Area Health Education Center (AHEC), through which he taught nurse practitioner students from affiliated training programs in west and southwest Georgia. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a member of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Honor Society for Humanism in Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP). He is founding President/CEO of the Dr. Earl Stewart, Jr., Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization started in 2017, which is tasked with educationally, spiritually, and culturally improving lives in the African-American community in Georgia and throughout the United States, awarding thousands of dollars in endowed scholarships to high school students attending HBCUs and other institutions of higher learning since its inception. In October 2018, Dr. Stewart was recognized as one the 2018 “40 Under 40” in the state of Georgia for his career and community service efforts deemed at making a tremendous impact in the lives of fellow citizens across the state and region by Georgia Trend magazine. In May 2021, Dr. Stewart was named to the 2021 Georgia Trend magazine’s Top Doctors list, recognizing his career achievements and commitment to stellar patient care within and throughout the state of Georgia. In addition to ACP, he is a member of the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG), the National Medical Association (NMA), and the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL).