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Recent Visiting Scholars

• Benard P. Dreyer, M.D.
  Professor of Pediatrics & Director of
  Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  New York University School of Medicine
  Director of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center
  “To Create a Better World for Children and Families:  The Case for Ending Childhood Poverty”
  (March 2013)
• Leonard I. Zon, M.D.
  Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
  Director of the Stem Cell Program
  Children's Hospital Boston
  "Pathways Regulating Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Migration" 
  (May 2012)
• Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, M.D.
  Anderson Family Endowed Chair in Medical Education, Research and Patient Care;
  Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  "Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease: Complexities from the Clinic to the Cilium"
  (November, 2011)
• Charles J. Homer, M.D., .M.PH.
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
  "QI and Research - Complementary Ways of Knowing"
  (November, 2010)
• Thomas J. Walsh, M.D.
  Director, Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Supportive Care Program
  Weill-Cornell Medical Center
  Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  "Medical Mycology: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Life-Threatening Infections in
  Immunocompromised Children"
  (April, 2010)
• Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D.
  Director, Vascular Program
  Institute for Cell Engineering
  C. Michael Armstrong Professor
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  "Regulation of Oxygen Homeostasis by Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1"
  (June 2009)
• Steven H. Abman, M.D.
  Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center
  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  and the Children's Hospital
  "New Thoughts on the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia"
  (February 2009)
• Jo Ivey, Boufford, M.D.
  President, New York Academy of Medicine;
  Professor of Public Service, Health Policy &
  Management, Wagner Graduate School of
  Public Service, New York University and
  Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, New York University
  Medical School
  "Is America's Health Policy Healthy?"
  (December 2008)
• Ronald E. Dahl, M.D.
  Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
  Director of the Child and Adolescent Sleep and Neurobehavioral Laboratory
  University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  "Adolescent Brain Development: A Period of Vulnerabilities and Opportunities"
  (April 2008)
• Salvatore DiMauro, M.D.
  Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology
  Department of Neurology
  Columbia University, New York
  "Mitochondrial Diseases: An Update"
  (May 2007)
• Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.             
  Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
  “What to Do With a Patient Who Smokes”
  (March 2006)
• Alan H. Jobe, M.D., Ph.D.           
  Professor of Pediatrics
  Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology
  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
  University of Cincinnati
  "Lung Maturation:  Research Resulting from Clinical Observations"
  (Oct. 2005)
• Richard J. O’Reilly, M.D.           
  Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
  Chief, Bone Marrow Transplantation Service
  Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  New York, New York
  “Antigen-specific T-cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy of Viral Diseases and Residual Disease Following Allogeneic Marrow Transplants”
  (Sept. 2005)
• Bruce R. Blazar, M.D.              
  Professor and Andersen Chair in
  Transplantation Immunology
  Department of Pediatrics
  Associate Chair, Division of Blood and
  Marrow Transplantation
  University of Minnesota
  “Improving the Outcome of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation by Down-Regulating the Immune System”
  (Nov. 2004)
• Cuthberto Garza, M.D., Ph.D.            
  Assistant Provost and Chair
  Department of Nutrition
  Cornell University
  “ Raising the Bar: Nutrition and Health”
  (April 2004)
• H. Scott Baldwin, M.D.              
  Professor of Pediatrics
  Cell and Developmental Biology
  Vanderbilt University
  “Genetic Regulation of Congenital Heart Disease: Old problems – New paradigms”
  (Feb. 2004)