Arthur H. Fierman, MD, FAAP is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU School of Medicine, and medical director of pediatric ambulatory care at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. His academic interests have included resident and medical student education, faculty mentorship, and the health and health care delivery issues of poor urban children such as growth, nutrition, obesity, health literacy, child development, immunization status, lead poisoning, doctor-patient communication in the management of chronic illness, media exposure, and school-based health. Dr. Fierman has been an active advocate for child health promotion within the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and in his role as co-chair of the NYC Coalition on Immunization Initiatives. Dr. Fierman has also been an active member of the Academic Pediatric Association, having served a Region Co-Chair and as Treasurer on its Board of Directors.
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Louis Bell, MD joined the medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1986 after a three-year fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, the Associate Chair of Clinical Activities and the Division Chief of General Pediatrics at CHOP. He has subspecialty board certification in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Bell has published more than 70 peer-reviewed research publications and over 40 chapters and reviews with a focus on understanding the epidemiology and improving the treatment and management of pediatric infectious diseases.
Marilyn Dumont-Driscoll, PhD, MD is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville Florida. She served many years as the Pediatric Continuity Clinic Director and now is the Medical Director of the General Pediatrics Fitness Clinic. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA), an Affiliate Specialist of the American College of Medical Genetics, has served as a member of several of the Pediatric Academic Societies' Program committees, and recently joined the Clinical Advisory Board of the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association. She has reviewed for several pediatric journals and is on the editorial board of the journal Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. Dr. Dumont-Driscoll's primary interests are in medical education, genetics in primary care, and the prevention and management of childhood obesity. She also serves on the Executive Steering Committee of the APA Continuity Research Network (CORNET).
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, FAAP specializes in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and environmental health. She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. As a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service for 20 years, Dr. Etzel served in public-sector leadership positions including: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Founding Chief of the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch), Department of Agriculture (Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Risk Assessment) and Indian Health Service (Research Director at the Alaska Native Medical Center). She is the Founding Editor of the AAP handbook Pediatric Environmental Health (now in its 2nd edition), Scientific Editor of the International Journal of Circumpolar Health, and serves on the Editorial Review Board of Environmental Health Perspectives. She founded the AAP Section on Epidemiology and served as its first Chair, and also served as Chair of the AAP Committee on Environmental Health. She is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence at the AAP. Her research interests include investigating the effects of environmental contaminants on children, identifying the environmental precipitants of asthma attacks and studying the health effects of exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants.
Mary C. Ottolini MD, MPH is Vice Chair of Education and Professor of Pediatrics for Children's National Medical Center and George Washington University School of Medicine. Earned her MD degree (1979-1983) and completed Pediatric Residency (1983-1986) at Wayne State University/Children's Hospital of Michigan and Academic General Pediatric Fellowship (1989-1991) and MPH at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. Areas of expertise are: Medical Education (APA Education Committee Chair, 2007-2010; NBME Step 2 Test Material Development Committee, 2006-2009) and Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine PHM (Senior Editor PHM Core Competencies).
John (Jack) Pascoe, MD, MPH is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, General and Community Pediatrics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Pascoe is a Past-President, Ambulatory Pediatric Association and has served on a number of editorial boards including Pediatrics, Pediatrics in Review and Ambulatory Pediatrics. Dr. Pascoe served as a member of the National Advisory Group for the Head Start Transition Project, has been a member of the National Head Start Research Conference Program Committee for almost 15 years and was a member of the national Executive Committee for a HRSA funded national medical education project, Undergraduate Medical Education in the 21st Century (UME-21). Dr. Pascoe serves on the national Steering Committee of the Primary Care Organizations' Consortium, representing general pediatrics.
Naomi A. Schapiro, PhD (c), RN, CPNP is Associate Clinical Professor, Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing Specialty Coordinator and Doctoral Candidate at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She is a founding member and past president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of National Association of Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), and has participated in curriculum development through the Association of Faculties of PNP Programs. Ms. Schapiro has been an advisory board member of the Adolescent Health Working Group, and most recently helped develop their Mental Health Toolkit for primary care providers. Ms. Schapiro has written numerous journal articles and book chapters related to advanced practice pediatric nursing and is a co-editor of the 5th edition of Care of the Child With a Chronic Condition, in press.
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Perri Klass, MD is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Boston. She is the National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, and was awarded the 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics Education Award. She is the author of two books about medical training, A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, and Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training. Her most recent books are Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, and The Mercy Rule, a novel. She writes the "18 and Under" column for The New York Times.
John Lantos, MD is Director of the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Prior to moving to Kansas City, he was at The University of Chicago for twenty-one years. While there, he served as Chief of the medical staff at La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, and Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. He is a past-president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. His books include Do We Still Need Doctors? (Routledge, 1999), The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (Duke, 1999), The Lazarus Case (Johns Hopkins, 2003), Neonatal Bioethics (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He is currently working on a project trying to understand how why preterm birth rates in the United States keep rising.
