Traci Sheaffer, MD

Dr. Sheaffer was born in Asheville, North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991 with a BA in journalism and mass communications. After her undergraduate education, she worked for several years in Greenville with Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) on projects involving scientific research documentation. She then earned an MD at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1998. Following medical school, she was an intern and resident in medicine and pediatrics at Louisiana State University in New Orleans and completed her residency in child neurology at UNC. She joined Raleigh Neurology Associates in 2003, and became board-certified in child neurology in 2004. Dr. Sheaffer practices child neurology at Raleigh Neurology Associates and is actively involved in the pediatric teaching service at WakeMed.