Marie Jean-Baptiste, DO, MBE
Marie Jean-Baptiste, DO, MBE
I serve as Vice President of CAPBC and the association's Ethics and Compliance Officer. My background in bioethics, combined with my daily clinical practice, lets me hold CAPBC accountable to the same standards I bring to patient care: grounded decisions, honest accountability, and a commitment to the people we actually serve. As we take on new initiatives, partnerships, and community programs, my job is to make sure our work stays compliant and ethically sound. I treat governance not as paperwork but as a discipline of care.
Professionally, I am the founder and lead pediatrician at Rising Star Pediatrics in West Palm Beach, where I deliver personalized, concierge-style care to children and families. My clinical expertise spans lactation medicine, newborn nursery, osteopathic manipulation techniques, and general pediatrics, and my prior experience as a pediatric hospitalist lets me address complex needs in a primary-care setting. Beyond the practice, I partner with community initiatives as an educator on infant and maternal health, and I serve on the board of the True Armor Foundation, an organization developing practical strategies to expand screenings for congenital heart disease, one of the leading causes of infant death.
Within our Cameroonian community in South Florida and back home in Cameroon, the contribution I want to make is the kind that reaches the most vulnerable people in any community: mothers, infants, and the families holding it all together. Through the TJ Leroy Jefferson Society I pour into the next generation through mentorship. Through Walk with a Doc I work alongside neighborhoods to build sustainable healthy habits at street level. My presence on the CAPBC leadership team means the association has a clinician and ethicist at the table whenever decisions touch family health, vulnerable populations, or the integrity of how we show up in the community.
Concierge-style pediatric practice in West Palm Beach. I founded it because I wanted to deliver the kind of personalized, preventative, family-centered care that meets families where they actually are.
I serve on the board of this foundation, which is committed to expanding screenings for congenital heart disease, one of the leading causes of infant death. The work is practical and the stakes are real.