| Lillian M. Beard, M.D.
Dr. Beard is the the physician director of Children's Pediatricians and Associates, Silver Spring, Md., and is an associate clinical professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and an assistant professor at Howard University College of Medicine, Washington. She is also a national media spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. |
| Lee Savio Beers, M.D.
Dr. Lee Savio Beers is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center and The George Washington University Medical Center. She is the Director of the Healthy Generations Program, a "teen-tot" program providing comprehensive medical care, case management and mental health services to adolescent parents and their children. She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), is currently a member of the national Committee on Residency Scholarships and is the Vice President of the District of Columbia Chapter of the AAP. Her professional and research interests include adolescent pregnancy and parenting; medical education; and under-served populations. She has both published and given numerous local and national presentations on these topics. |
| Suzanne C. Boulter, M.D.
Dr. Boulter is Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH. Her professional background includes clinical practice in a multi-specialty group practice and pediatric faculty at the NH Dartmouth Family Medicine program. She is a past president of the NH Pediatric Society and has been active in child advocacy at the state and national levels. She has served on 4 American Academy of Pediatrics national committees and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Oral Health of the AAP. She also serves on several editorial boards and has won numerous awards for her advocacy work.
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| Stuart A. Cohen, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Cohen is Vice-Chair, AAP District 9 (California) and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, He is a senior shareholder in private practice with the Children’s Primary Care Medical Group, San Diego. He is president of the San Diego County Medical Society Foundation and an AAP delegate to the AMA and the California Medical Association.
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| H. Garry Gardner, M.D.
Dr. Gardner is a professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is in private practice in Darien, Ill. He is the chair of the national AAP Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention, and received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at the university. |
| David L. Hill, M.D.
Dr. Hill is vice president of Cape Fear Pediatrics in Wilmington, N.C., and is an adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the executive committee of the AAP Council on Communications and Media, and an executive committee member of the North Carolina Pediatric Society. He has recorded commentaries for NPR's "All Things Considered" program, and he writes a monthly column for the Wilmington Parent magazine. Dr. Hill serves as a contributor to several online health sites, including Livestrong.com, eHow.com, World News Network, and SheKnows.com. He is especially interested in media issues, best practices, electronic medical records, and quality improvement. Dr. Hill is the author of Between Us Dads: A Father's Guide To Child Health to be published in June, 2012, from AAP Publishing.
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| M. Susan Jay, M.D.
Dr. Jay is professor of pediatrics and chief of adolescent medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, both in Milwaukee. She currently serves as one of the American Board of Pediatrics representatives to the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Jay has served on multiple national committees and societal boards, and was a former secretary-treasurer of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. She has served on the AAP's Bright Futures expert panel and has authored many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Jay also has presented on adolescent health and medicine topics regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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| Colleen A. Kraft, M.D. FAAP
Colleen A. Kraft, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and Transitional Year Program Director, Carilion Clinic. Dr. Kraft is a primary care pediatrician with Carilion Pediatric Medicine, and Medical Director of Medical Home Plus, a non-profit organization that extends the reach of the Medical Home by connecting families with community resources. She is a coauthor of the book Managing Chronic Health Needs in School and Child Care, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in September, 2009. Dr. Kraft is a past president of the Virginia Chapter of the AAP. She serves on the AAP executive committee on the Council of Community Pediatrics, and writes for the section on International Child Health Newsletter. Her professional interests include international child health and children with special health care needs.
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| Kevin Powell, M.D. Ph.D.
Dr. Powell practices as a hospitalist at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. He is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University. He is also Listserv moderator for the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine and is a member of the Law and Bioethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
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| Keith S. Reisinger, M.D.
Dr. Reisinger is medical director of Primary Physicians Research, Pittsburgh, and the principal investigator on a number of studies. He has contributed to more than 300 clinical trials focused primarily in the area of vaccine development.
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| Sarah Schlegel, M.D.
Dr. Schlegel joined the division of developmental-behavioral pediatrics at Connecticut Children's Medical Center after completing a fellowship in developmental-behavioral pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. She is now an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Connecticut. Her clinical work includes outpatient services for children with developmental, behavioral, and learning problems; school consultation services; as well as support for the outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation programs. Dr. Schlegel is currently the medical director for the Hartford area Medical-Legal Partnership Project. She is an invited member of the Program Committee of the Society for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. Her involvement in Reach Out and Read led her to create her own youth literacy non-profit organization; she founded ReBooK (Recycling Books for Kids) in 2000. Dr. Schlegel is also the cofounder and now coadvisor of the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine American School for the Deaf Health Education program in West Hartford.
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Jack T. Swanson, M.D.
Dr. Swanson practices pediatrics at the McFarland Clinic and the Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. He is also a member of the AAP Bright Futures Steering Committee, and is a liaison to the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases.
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| Deborah Tolchin, M.D.
Dr. Tolchin is an attending pediatrician at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City and is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York. She is also a member and past chapter president of AAP District II as well as a member of the American Board of Pediatrics.
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| Consultant Advisory BoardMary Margaret Gottesman, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P.
Mary Margaret Gottesman, is a professor of clinical nursing at the Ohio State University College of Nursing and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. At the university, Dr. Gottesman directs the Doctor of Nursing Practice program and the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialtyand teaches in the interdisciplinary Leadership Excellence in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. She is a past president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), and she now chairs NAPNAP's Healthy Eating and Activity Together (HEAT) National Initiative. In her role as chair, Dr. Gottesman led the development and writing of the first obesity prevention focused clinical guideline, Early Identification and Prevention of Childhood Overweight (2006). She also serves as a steering work group member for the Bright Futures Program at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Gottesman is a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Pediatric Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Initiative Expert Panel, which has completed a primary care risk reduction guideline now in review at DHHS.
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| Vaughn I. Rickert, Psy.D.
Vaughn I. Rickert is the Donald P. Orr, M.D., Professor in Adolescent Medicine within the department of pediatrics and is the director of the section of adolescent medicine at Indiana University and Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis. Dr. Rickert has authored and coauthored over 100 publications in adolescent health. His research interests focus on adolescent relationship violence and contraceptive use in this population. A new emerging area of research activity he is examining involves contextual factors that can be used to identify behaviorally based predictors of successful health outcomes among severely obese adolescents and young adults undergoing bariatric surgery. Dr. Rickert is a past president of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, a multidisciplinary professional society devoted exclusively to the health and well-being of adolescents.
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| Marita Quigley Nazarian
Marita Quigley Nazarian is director of pharmacy at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock and an adjunct assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include pediatric antibiotic usage, pediatric asthma, medication management standards for contrast media, and automated drug delivery systems.
Last updated September 30, 2011 |
