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National Leadership

Our Faculty in National Positions

We are perhaps unique among university-affiliated departments of pediatrics in that 3 of our 4 last chairs were generalists of national renown - Robert J. Haggerty, M.D. Emeritus, widely regarded as a founder of general academic pediatris, as well as Robert A. Hoekelman, M.D., Emeritus and Elizabeth A. McAnarney, M.D. 

Constance D. Baldwin, Ph.D.

• Member, Board of Directors, Academic Pediatric Association
• Chair, Education Committee
• Director, PAS Educational Scholars Program
• Team Member, APA Educational Guidelines for Pediatric Residency
• Past Chair, Faculty Development Special Interest Group

Stephen R. Cook, M.D., M.P.H, F.A.A.P.

• Member, Executive Committee, Provisional Section on Obesity, American Academy of Pediatrics
• Member, Membership Committee & Advocacy Taskforce, The Obesity Society

Lynn Garfunkel, M.D.

• Education Committee, Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
• CORNET—Continuity Clinic Research Network
• Curriculum Committee, Association of Pediatric Program Directors APPD

Jeffrey Kaczorowski, M.D.

• Principal Investigator and Director, Community Pediatrics Training Initiative, American  Academy of Pediatrics
• Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R3P) Project Committee, American Board of Pediatrics

Kenneth M. McConnochie, M.D.

• Nominating Committee, Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • District IIMember, Executive CommitteeT reasurer
  • Chapter I, District IIMember, Executive Committee Vice President
  • Committee on Child Health Financing Chairman
  • ACQIP—EQIPP Strategic Planning Committee Chairman
  • Pediatrician Reimbursement Advisory Team, Member
  • Private Sector Advocacy Advisory Committee, Member
  • Access to Care Subcommittee
  • ADHD Project Advisory Committee
  • Immunization Advisory Team
  • Mental Health Task Force
  • AAP representative to the Ambulatory Care Quality Association
  • AAP representative to the American Board of Pediatrics Task Force On Maintenance of Certification in Pediatrics
• Chairman, Pediatric Advisory Group, New York State Department of Health

Lawrence Nazarian, M.D.

• PREP Advisory Group & Committee on Pediatric Education, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Laura P. Shone, M.S.W., Dr. P.H.

• Member, Academic Pediatric Association
• Member, Academy Health
• Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
• New Leaders in National Maternal and Child Health

Moira Szilagyi, M.D., Ph.D.

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and Dependent Care
  • Healthy Foster Care America Steering Committee
  • Task Force on Foster Care

Peter G. Szilagyi, M.D., M.P.H.

• Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
  • Past Co-Chairman, Region III
  • Board of Directors
  • Past Chair, Research Committee
  • President Elect
  • President
  • Immediate Past President