Carolyn Brookhart, MD
Dr. Brookhart grew up outside Boston and attended Wellesley College, where she majored in chemistry and played lacrosse. She received her medical degree from the UNC School of Medicine and was a pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital Oakland in California. After completing her medical training, Dr. Brookhart moved back to New England and worked as a pediatrician in a community health center and at Boston Medical Center. She was also an Instructor of Pediatrics in the Boston University School of Medicine. Six years later, Dr. Brookhart returned to North Carolina with her husband to raise their two children. Prior to founding Chatham Pediatrics, Dr. Brookhart worked for over a decade in private practice in Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area.
Dr. Brookhart is dedicated to providing exceptional care to her patients and partnering with families to help raise children for lifelong health. She is passionate about pediatrics and is honored to care and advocate for a diverse patient population.
In her free time, Dr. Brookhart enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends, attending CrossFit workouts, and watching ACC basketball. She is an avid gardener and is currently cultivating a monarch butterfly garden.
Katharine Delgado, MD, MSPH
Dr. Katie Delgado was raised in Hanover, NH, where her family owned an independent bookstore. She is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She came to North Carolina for her pediatric and preventive medicine training at UNC Hospitals, and received her Masters of Science in Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to founding Chatham Pediatrics, Dr. Delgado worked at a community health center in Chatham County and a private pediatric practice in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Delgado enjoys getting to know families from diverse backgrounds and working collaboratively with parents to provide high quality care for their children. She is fluent in Spanish after studying in Bolivia and Mexico.
Dr. Delgado and her husband have 3 children and have had the opportunity to be foster parents to several others. When she is not on the sidelines of her daughter's soccer games, Dr. Delgado enjoys spending her free time reading or taking long walks with her energetic, rescue hound. She has been amazed to watch her older boys transform into young adults, and is always happiest when all her children are at home.
Brett MacLean, MD
Dr MacLean was born and raised in Raleigh and continued in NC for both his undergraduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill and for medical school at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. He then completed his pediatric residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, followed by two years as an Instructor in the MUSC Pediatric Emergency Department. Dr MacLean then moved overseas with his family to work in French-speaking West Africa.
In addition to his formal pediatric training and his many years of work experience, Dr MacLean is thankful for all that he has learned while raising his four children with his wife Sheri, a Nurse Midwife and Co-Director of Labor and Delivery at UNC Hospital.
Dr MacLean enjoys working with parents to provide excellent pediatric care to children of all ages, cultures, and languages. In addition to English, Dr MacLean is fluent in French and the West African language of Bambara. He also speaks Spanish with increasing proficiency.
Dr MacLean works at Chatham Pediatrics part-time as he is also the Chief Medical Officer for the non-profit Global Partners in Hope and frequently travels back and forth to West Africa.