Barry S. Zuckerman is Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. He started the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston City Hospital and was one of 12 founders of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He was appointed chair of Pediatrics in 1993 and was asked to be First Medical Director of Boston Medical Center when Boston City Hospital merged with University Hospital. He is a co-founder of Reach Out and Read,a national childhood literacy program in the United States,founder of Medical-Legal Partnership,and co-founder of Health Leads,Healthy Steps,and the Nutrition &Fitness for Life pediatric obesity program,all of which have transformed pediatric care for low-income families. Most recently,along with colleagues,he developed a free app for pediatric primary care called "Small Moments,Big Impact" to promote the mother-infant relationship and emotional well-being for low-income mothers from birth through the first six months of their baby's life.
Jane Aronson,D.O. is an osteopathic physician,with expertise in pediatric infectious diseases and adoption medicine.
Francine Ratner Kaufman is an American endocrinologist,professor,author,researcher,consultant,and corporate officer in the medical field of diabetes mellitus. She is the author of Diabesity:The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America. She is currently chief medical officer at Medtronic's diabetes business.
Maria Iandolo New is a professor of Pediatrics,Genomics and Genetics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is an expert in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH),a genetic condition affecting the adrenal gland that can affect sexual development.
Danielle Laraque-Arena is an American pediatrician,academician and administrator. She is currently a senior scholar-in-residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. Prior to her role at the academy,she was a professor at Einstein College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,as well as chair of the pediatrics department at Maimonides Medical Center. From 2016 to 2018,Laraque-Arena served as president of State University of New York Upstate Medical University,succeeding Gregory Eastwood as the first woman to be president. In that role,she also served as CEO of the Upstate Health System.
Renee Rosalind Jenkins is an American pediatrician known for her work in adolescent medicine. She is the first African-American president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society of Adolescent Medicine.
Barbara J. Stoll is an American pediatrician and professor. She is the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences,Professor of Pediatrics and former Dean at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
James Earl Crowe Jr. is an American immunologist and pediatrician as well as Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology,Microbiology,and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Colleen A. Kraft is an American pediatrician specialized in community pediatrics,child advocacy,and healthcare financing.
Nadia Lauren Dowshen is an American pediatrician and adolescent medicine physician. She specializes in the care of youth living with HIV infection and medical care to transgender and gender-diverse youth. Dowshen researches health inequality,access to care,and promoting resilience in LGBT youth. As an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,she is also the medical director and co-founder of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic.
Amy Joy Houtrow is an American pediatrician and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. She is the Endowed Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Rhea W. Boyd is an American pediatrician and child and community health advocate. Boyd is a popular science communicator,making use of social media to amplify a diverse range of voices in an effort to improve the heath of communities of colour.
Sallie Robey Permar is the pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on infections affecting newborns.
Maria M. Oliva-Hemker is a Cuban-American pediatrician. She is the Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD),Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology,Hepatology and Nutrition and Vice Dean for Faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Tina Lee Cheng is an American pediatrician. In 2020,she was named the Chair of Pediatrics,Chief Medical Officer,and Research Foundation Director of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Eliana Perrin is an American pediatrician,researcher,and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care with joint appointments with tenure in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and in the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University. She was elected a member of the American Pediatric Society in 2021.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick is an American pediatrician who is Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine at University of California,San Francisco. She is the former President of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. In 2010 she was elected a to the National Academy of Medicine.
Jasmine Y. Zapata is an American physician and epidemiologist. She is the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Her career includes work as a pediatrician,public health researcher,assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin,author,and her support for youth empowerment with a variety of initiatives.
Fatima Cody Stanford is an obesity medicine physician,internist,and pediatrician and an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity.
Nina Felice Schor is an American physician-scientist and pediatric neurologist. She has served as director of the NIH Intramural Research Program since the Fall of 2022. Schor was the deputy director of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke from 2018 to 2022. She was the William H. Eilinger Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at University of Rochester and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the Golisano Children’s Hospital from 2006 to January 2018.
