His area of clinical expertise is pediatric emergency medicine. Dr. Jeffers is the medical director of Hopkins Outreach for Pediatric Education (HOPE) Center, a program within the Johns Hopkins Simulation Center. The HOPE Center seeks to improve the care of severely ill or injured children in Maryland through education programs.After receiving his medical degree from the University of Toledo College of Medicine, Dr. Jeffers completed his residency in pediatrics at Hasbro Children’s Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine. He performed his fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Children’s Memorial Medical Center (now the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago).