Dr. Antonio “Tony” Reddick Mott has accepted the position of medical director of the Evelyn and Daniel M. Tabas Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and associate professor of pediatrics appointment at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is an affiliate of The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He began this appointment Sept. 1.

Mott is a 1981 graduate of Tift County High School, a 1983 graduate of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (A.S., Biology), and a 1985 graduate of Valdosta State College (B.S., Biology). In 1989, he graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. In 1992, he completed an internship/residency in general pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. He went on to complete post graduate fellowships in pediatric cardiology at Texas Children’s Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine and in pediatric critical care medicine at CHOP/The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998.

Prior to accepting his current position at CHOP, Mott was a member of the medical staff at Texas Children’s Hospital from 1998 to 2009, where he was a member of the Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology and assistant professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. He also was the assistant director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and director of the Cardiology Patient Safety Conference at TCH and a member of the Baylor College of Medicine Admissions Committee.

Mott is the son of Mrs. Leona Reddick Mott of Tifton and the late Arthur A. Mott. He is the grandson of the late Carrie Reddick Tucker and Evans Reddick and the late Irene and Marshall Mott. His brother, Alfred, practices general dentistry in Tifton. His sister, Vicki, is an attorney in Atlanta and works with the Department of the Interior. His niece Adrienne Mott is a third-year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia’s School of Medicine.