Pediatrics / Research / Gilbert B. Forbes Scholar Past Visiting Scholars Robert Blum, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Emeritus William H. Gates, Sr. Professor Bloomberg School of Public Health Past Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Past-President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine Served on the American Board of Pediatrics Past chair of the Guttmacher Institute Board of Directors Inaugural chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Adolescent Health 2006 member of the NAM Consultant to The World Bank, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) WHO - TAG of the MCH Department and Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the Human Reproductive Program “The Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease: Long, Dazed Journey into Clinic” (November 2023) Paul A. Offit, M.D. Director of the Vaccine Education Center and Professor of Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania “How to Communicate Science to the Public—or Die Trying” (October 2018) Donna Ferriero, M.D., M.S. W.H. and Marie Wattis Distinguished Professor & Chair Department of Pediatrics Physician-in-Chief, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital University of California, San Francisco “The Vulnerable Newborn Brain – Lessons from Neuroimaging” (April 2016) Catherine Lord, Ph.D. Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain Weill Cornell Medical School New York Presbyterian Hospital "Where Did the New DSM-5 Criteria Come From and Where Will They Take Us?" (June 2015) Edward R.B. McCabe, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Vice President and Medical Director March of Dimes Foundation National Office "Early-life Antecedents of Children's Health and Disease" (June 2014) Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D. Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University School of Medicine "Forging an Understanding of Iron Disorders" (March 2014) 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)