Teresa Sue Bratton, MD - Biography

It's time for a change in Washington.

Teresa Sue Bratton is a civic and professional leader, a wife and a mother, who believes that our nation must once again focus on the issues that are important to American families: health care, education, jobs, national security and the environment.

Teresa believes that we must secure the future for our children and our grandchildren. We must make sure they have every opportunity to be healthy, to be prosperous, and to be safe.

Teresa is running for Congress because she wants to help change the future - for them ... and for us.

Career Background
For 25 years Teresa served Piedmont families as a pediatric allergist. She retired from private practice in 2006 but continues to help local families through the allergy/asthma clinic for indigent children at Guilford Child Health. She also helps train the doctors of the future as an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine.

Civic Service & Service Organizations
Teresa has been active in the North Carolina Pediatric Society's Environmental Health Group, has testified before the US EPA on air quality issues, served as president of the Guilford County Medical Society and the American Lung Association of North Carolina's Piedmont Chapter and has been active in efforts to improve both indoor and outdoor air quality in Guilford County and the Triad. She is a distinguished member of numerous medical and professional associations.

Personal Background
Teresa has lived in Greensboro for over 25 years. She and her husband, Dr. Gustav Blomquist, Jr., are the proud parents of Gus (31), Kerstin (29), and Michael (26). She is an accomplished tennis player and avid hiker and cyclist. She enjoys gardening and recently graduated from the Master Gardener program of the Guilford County Agricultural Extension Agency. Teresa is a member of First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.

Teresa was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1948, graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 and her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1974.