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Elaine J. Abrams, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of Research, Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center; Director, MTCT-Plus Initiative, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York 
NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION


Elias Abrutyn, MD
Associate Provost and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Interim Chief, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine; and Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
TETANUS NEONATORUM


Thomas C. Abshire, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Atlas Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service, Atlanta, Georgia
DISORDERS OF COAGULATION, PLATELET NUMBER, AND FUNCTION


Mark J. Abzug, MD

Professor of Pediatrics (Pediatric Infectious Diseases), University of Colorado School of Medicine; Staff Physician, The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado 
VIRAL MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS


Seema Aceves, MD, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; Allergist, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California
SERUM SICKNESS


Raymond Adelman, MD
Pediatric Nephrologist, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona 
FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE THERAPY


Samuel M. Alaish, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 
PLEURAL EFFUSION, EMPYEMA, AND CHYLOTHORAX


Mark E. Alexander, MD 
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Cardiology, Arrhythmia Service, Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 
SYNCOPE


Julian Lewis Allen, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, and Robert Gerard Morse Endowed Chair in Pulmonary Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
BRONCHITIS AND BRONCHIOLITIS

 
Uri S. Alon, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine; Pediatric Nephrologist, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
URINARY TRACT INFECTION AND PERINEPHRIC/INTRANEPHRIC ABSCESS


Blanche P. Alter, MD, MPH
Expert, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 
INHERITED FORMS OF APLASTIC ANEMIA: THE INHERITED BONE MARROW FAILURE SYNDROMES; ACQUIRED APLASTIC ANEMIA

 
R. Peter Altman, MD
Professor of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Surgeon in Chief, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York–Presbyterian, New York, New York
PLEURAL EFFUSION, EMPYEMA, AND CHYLOTHORAX


Richard C. E. Anderson, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurosurgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Childrens Hospital of New York, New York
DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF CHIARI I MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS


Sharon Phillips Andreoli, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University College of Medicine; Staff Physician, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana 
HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME


Richard J. Antaya, MD 
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics, Yale
University School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Departments
of Dermatology and Pediatrics, Yale–New Haven Hospital ,
New Haven Connecticut
DISORDERS OF THE HAIR AND SCALP 
 
 
Robert J. Arceci, MD, PhD
Director and King Fahd Professor of Pediatric Oncology,
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine ; Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics,
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns
Hopkins, and Director of Pediatric Oncology, Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
HISTIOCYTOSIS


Marc S. Arkovitz, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia University Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Pediatric Surgeon,Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York ,
New York
PNEUMOTHORAX AND PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM


Carola A. S. Arndt, MD 
Associate Professor and Division Chair, Pediatric
Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatric and
Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Staff
Physician, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
NEUROBLASTOMA 

 
David P. Ascher, MD, MBA 
Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Medicine , Richmond ; Chairman, Department of
Pediatrics, Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, Fairfax,
Virginia
INTESTINAL PROTOZOA
 
 
Lee I. Ascherman, MD, MPh 
Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Chief of Service, Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children’s Hospital of Alabama ,
Birmingham, Alabama
PSYCHIATRC DISORDERS AND MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS INCHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Jane T. Atkins, MD 
Hospital Epidemiologist, Methodist Children’s Hospital of
South Texas, San Antonio, Texas
INTESTINAL PROTOZOA 
 
 
Diego H. Aviles, MD 
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana
State University School of Medicine at New Orleans ;
Pediatric Nephrologist, Children’s Hospital, New Orleans ,
Louisiana
TREATMENT OF GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
 
 
Felicia B. Axelrod, MD 
Carl Seaman Family Professor of Dysautonomia Treatment
and Research, Department of Pediatrics, and Professor of
Neurology, New York University School of Medicine;
Attending, Department of Pediatrics, and Director,
Dysautonomia Treatment and Evaluation Center ,
Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, NYU Medical
Center, New York ,
New York
FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA
 
 
Estanislao Bachrach, PhD 
Research Associate, Genetics Department, Harvard Medical
School and Genomics Program, Children’s Hospital Boston,
Boston, Massachusetts
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
 
 
Terry M. Baird, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case School of Medicine;
Director, Normal Newborn Nurseries, Rainbow Babies and
Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
APNEA OF PREMATURITY
 
 
Carol J. Baker, MD 
Professor and Head, Division of Pediatric Infectious
Diseases, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology
and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending
Physician, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Texas
Children’s Hospital; Medical Director, Infection Control,
Woman’s Hospital of Texas , Houston, Texas
GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
 
 
Ma. Victoria F. Balagon, MD 
Assistant Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Leonard Wood
Memorial Center for Leprosy Research, Cebu City , Philippines
LEPROSY (HANSEN DISEASE)
 
 
Robert S. Baltimore, MD, FAAP 
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Department of
Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine; Attending
Physician, Yale–New Haven Children’s Hospital, New
Haven, Connecticut
CELLULITIS
 
 
Gina-Marie Barletta, MD 
Staff, Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, DeVos
Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
DIALYTIC THERAPIES
 
 
Joel L. Bass, MD 
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School, Boston; Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Newton-
Wellesley Hospital , Newton ; Attending Pediatrician,
Massachusetts; General Hospital for Children, Boston ;
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University
School of Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts
PREVENTING CHILDHOOD INJURIES
 
 
David A. Bateman, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of
Network Nurseries, Department of Pediatrics/Neonatology,
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
HYDROPS FETALIS
 
 
Eraka Bath, MD 
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of
Medicine; Clinical Director, ACS–Bellevue Mental Health
Service, NYU Child Study Center, New York, New York
PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS
 
 
L. Arturo Batres, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical
School; Staff Physician, Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics,
The Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk ,
Virginia
HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION
 
 
Mark L. Batshaw, MD 
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, George
Washington University School of Medicine and Health
Sciences; Chief Academic Officer, Children’s National
Medical Center ; Director, Children’s Research Institute,
Washington, DC
MENTAL RETARDATION
 
 
Eric D. Baum, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology,
Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine; Senior Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology,
The children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF THE NECK
 
 
Leslie Baumann, MD 
Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine , Miami, Florida
SUN PROTECTION IN THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Stephen Baumgart, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Staff Physician,
Department of Neonatology, Children’s National Medical
Center, Washington, DC
WATER AND ELECTROLYTE BALANCE IN LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT INFANTS
 
 
Brook Belay, MD, MPh
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Temple University School
of Medicine; Staff Physician, Temple University Children’s
Medical Center , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
 
 
Mark R. Benfield, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric
Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Health
System of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
MANAGING END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE
 
 
Latanya T. Benjamin, MD 
Pediatric Dermatology Clinical Research Fellow,
Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Division
of Pediatric Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine; Staff Physician, Jackson Memorial Hospital ,
Miami, Florida
SUN PROTECTION IN THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Suzanne Beno, MD 
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Fellow, Pediatric
Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ANAPHYLAXIS
 
 
Abbey L. Berg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies/Division of
Communication Sciences and Disorders, Pace University;
Staff, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Children’s
Hospital of New York ; Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology/
Head and Neck Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York, New York
HEARING LOSS
 
 
Joel Howard Berg, DDS, MS 
Lloyd and Kay Chapman Chair for Oral Health and
Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of
Washington School of Medicine , Seattle, Washington
ORAL HEALTH
 
 
Roger L. Berkow, MD 
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine;
Staff Physician, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s
Hospital of Alabama , Birmingham, Alabama
HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS
 
 
Jonathan Berman, MD, PhD, FAAP 
Director, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
LEISHMANIASIS, AMERICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN
TRYPANSOSOMIASIS
 
 
David I. Bernstein, MD, MA 
Albert Sabin Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine ; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati ,
Ohio
ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS
 
 
Gerard T. Berry, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
METABOLIC EMERGENCIES IN THE NEWBORN
 
 
Jeffrey M. Bethony, MS, PhD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology,
Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Washington, DC
SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS
 
 
Katherine Biagas, MD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Staff
Physician, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York ,
New York
DROWNING AND NEAR DROWNING: SUBMERSION INJURY
 
 
Robert James Bidwell, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine;
Director of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics,
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children,
Honolulu, Hawaii
ISSUES OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY
 
 
John J. Bissler, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology and
Hypertension, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine ;
Staff Physician, Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
HEMATURIA AND PROTEINURIA
 
 
Steven Black, MD 
Clinical Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease,
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Stanford; Co-Director, Kaiser Permanente Vaccine
Study Center , Oakland, California
MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE
 
 
Ronald E. Blanton, MD, MS 
Associate Professor of International Health, Center for
Global Health and Diseases, Case School of Medicine,
Cleveland, Ohio
SCHISTOSOMIASIS
 
 
Nathan J. Blum, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Director, Section of Behavioral
Pediatrics, Division of Child Development and
Rehabilitation, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BREATH-HOLDING SPELLS
 
 
Amy Eldridge Bobrowski, MD 
Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Kidney
Diseases, Northwestern University McGaw School of
Medicine and Children’s Memorial Hospital , Chicago, Illinois
NEPHROLITHIASIS
 
 
Mark Boguniewicz, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of
Medicine; Staff Physician, Department of Pediatrics,
National Jewish Medical and Research Center , Denver ,
Colorado
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
 
 
William Borkowsky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, New York University School of
Medicine, New York, New York
WEST NILE VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS
 
 
Caroline D. Boyd, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care, Department of
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Alfred I. duPont
Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
 
 
John Timothy Boyle, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Chief, Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of
Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
 
 
Darla J. Bradshaw, RD, CNSD, LDN 
Nutrition Support Dietitian, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,
Department of Clinical Nutrition, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NUTRITION SUPPORT OF THE VERY ILL PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Brian E. Brigman, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic
Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham ,
North Carolina
MALIGNANT TUMORS OF BONE AND LIMB SALVAGE
 
 
Michael Briones, DO 
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology and
Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine; Staff,
AFLAC Cancer Center and Blood Disorder, Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
DISORDERS OF COAGULATION, PLATELET NUMBER, AND FUNCTION
 
 
Kenneth Bromberg, MD, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York; Chairman of Pediatrics, The Brooklyn
Hospital Center , Brooklyn, New York
GONOCOCCAL INFECTIONS 
 
 
Itzhak Brook, MD , MSc 
Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of
Medicine; Attending, Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown
University Medical Center, Washington , DC; Consultant,
Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda, Maryland
ANAEROBIC INFECTIONS
 
 
Simon Brooker, DPhil 
Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious and Tropical
Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, England
SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS
 
 
Lawrence W. Brown, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff Physician, The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
REYE SYNDROME; TOURETTE SYNDROME
 
 
Rachel E. Brown, MD 
Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Florida College of Medicine , Gainesville ,
Florida
NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
 
 
Terri Brown-Whitehorn, MD
Attending Physician, Division of Allergy and Immunology,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
ANAPHYLAXIS
 
 
Robert L. Buka, MD, JD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Assistant Attending,
Pediatric Dermatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York ,
New York ; Director of Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology,
The Dermatology Group, Verona, New Jersey
NEVI AND NEVOID TUMORS
 
 
Timothy E. Bunchman, MD 
Director, Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, DeVos
Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
DIALYTIC THERAPIES
 
 
Michael R. Bye, MD 
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons; Acting Director, Pediatric
Pulmonary Medicine, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
ASPIRATION SYNDROMES
 
 
Carrie L. Byington, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases,
University of Utah School of Medicine; Salt Lake City, Utah
ENTEROVIRUSES
 
 
Mitchell S. Cairo, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Pathology; Director,
Division of Pediatric Hematology and Bone Marrow
Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York ,
New York
NEONATAL AND CHILDHOOD NEUTROPENIA; BLOOD AND MARROW
TRANSPLANTATION
 
 
Diane P. Calello, MD
Instructor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics,
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ACUTE POISONING
 
 
Melissa S. Camp, MD
Resident, General Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital ,
Baltimore, Maryland
PERITONITIS
 
 
Joshua Cappell, MD 
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Assistant
Attending Physician, Departments of Neurology and
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian ,
New York, New York
PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI SYNDROME
 
 
Michael Cappello, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health,
Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Program in
International Child Health, Yale Child Health Research
Center, New Haven, Connecticut
TRICHINELLOSIS (TRICHINOSIS)
 
 
Joseph A. Carcillo, MD 
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Associate
Director, Pediatric ICU, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh ,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MANAGEMENT OF SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK
 
 
K. Robin Carder, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics, The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School , Dallas ,
Texas
SKIN DISEASES OF THE NEONATE, INCLUDING DIAPER DERMATITIS 
 
 
Ivan Cardona, MD 
Allergy/Immunology Fellow, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center , and National
Jewish Medical and Research Center , Denver, Colorado
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
 
 
Thomas O. Carpenter, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine;
Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics,
Yale–New Haven Hospital , New Haven, Connecticut
DISORDERS OF THE PARATHYROIDS, HYPOCALCEMIA,
AND HYPERCALCEMIA
 
 
Christopher L. Case, DMD, MD 
Associate Director, Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Cook
Children’s Medical Center , Fort Worth, Texas
CARDIAC DYSRHYTHMIAS 
 
 
Jacqueline Casillas, MD, MSHS 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA; Staff Physician, Division of Hematology/
Oncology Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles ,
California
THE CHILD CURED OF CANCER
 
 
N. John Cavuto, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Unit,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION 
 
 
Roland V. Cellona, MD, DPH (Lond), FPDS 
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of
Dermatology, Cebu Institute of Medicine; Chief
Epidemiologist Department of Dermatology,
Cebu Skin Clinic, American Leprosy Foundation,
Cebu City, Philippines
LEPROSY (HANSEN DISEASE)
 
 
Samuel Chachkin, MD 
Instructor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Attending Physician,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ERYTHEMA NODOSUM
 
 
James C. M. Chan, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of
Medicine, Burlington, Vermont ; Director of Research, The
Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, Portland, Maine
THE NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
 
 
Manju M. Chandra, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, New York University School of
Medicine, New York ; Staff Physician, Division of Pediatric
Nephrology, Schneider Children’s Hospital, New Hyde Park;
Physician in Charge, Urodynamics Laboratory, North Shore
University Hospital , Manhasset, New York
ENURESIS AND VOIDING DYSFUNCTION
 
 
Anne Bernadette Chang, MBBS, FRACP, MPHTM,PhD
Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health,
University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine; Attending,
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
COUGH
 
 
R. Victoria Chen, MD , MPH
Pediatricsan, Kaiser Permamente, Fontana, California
NEONATAL SEIZURES
 
 
Judy W. Cheng, MPAS, PA-C 
Dermatology Associates Medical Group Beverly Hills ,
California
ERYTHEMA NODOSUM
 
 
James D. Cherry, MD, MSc 
Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA; Los Angeles, California ; Member, Division of
Infectious Diseases Department of Pediatrics, Mattel
Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH) 
 
 
Russell W. Chesney, MD
LeBonheur Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Tennessee Health Science Center , College of
Medicine; Attending, LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center ,
Memphis, Tennessee
AN APPROACH TO THE TREATMENT OF METABOLIC DISEASE 
 
 
Robert L. Chevalier, MD 
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of
Virginia School of Medicine; Pediatrician-in-Chief,
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville ,
Virginia
OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY
 
 
Michael F. Chiang, MD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Assistant Attending, Department of Ophthalmology, New
York–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY
 
 
Claudia A. Chiriboga, MD, MPH 
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical
Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of
Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Associate Attending, Department of Neurology,
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
ACUTE ATAXIA
 
 
Abraham M. Chutorian, MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Weill Medical College of Cornell University ; Attending
Neurologist/Pediatrician, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital ;
Attending Pediatrician, Lennox Hill Hospital, New York ;
Consultant Pediatric Neurologist, Blythedale Children’s
Hospital, Valhalla, New York
HEADACHES
 
 
William L. Clarke, MD 
Genentech Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
School of Medicine , Charlottesville, Virginia
HYPOGLYCEMIA
 
 
Thomas G. Cleary, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School ;
Professor, Center for Infectious Diseases/University of Texas
School of Public Health , Houston, Texas
CAMPYLOBACTER ; NONTYPHOIDAL SALMONELLA; SHIGELLOSIS;
TYPHOID FEVER
 
 
Dennis A. Clements, MD, PhD 
Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Duke
University School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Duke
Children’s Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
INFECTIONS IN DAYCARE ENVIRONMENTS
 
 
Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious
Diseases, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ;
Medical Director, Department of Infection Prevention and
Control, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ABSCESS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
 
 
George J. Cohen, MD 
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington
University School of Medicine; Attending Pediatrician,
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington , DC;
Academic Staff, Department of Pediatrics, Holy Cross
Hospital, Silver Spring, Maryland
CHILDREN OF DIVORCING PARENTS
 
 
Steven D. Colan, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ; Chief,
Division of Noninvasive Cardiology, Children’s Hospital
Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
MYOCARDITIS AND PERICARDITIS
 
 
John J. Collins, MBBS, PhD, FRACP  
Head, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Children’s Hospital
at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
 
 
Elizabeth Alvarez Connelly, MD 
Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine (Dermatology),
University of California , San Diego, School of Medicine ; Staff
Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital and Health Center–San
Diego, San Diego, California
FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN, HAIR, AND NAILS; SUN PROTECTION IN THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Alex R. Constantinescu, MD  
Associate Professor–Voluntary, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami ;
Director, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Joe DiMaggio
Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, Florida
RENAL TUBULOPATHIES
 
 
Arthur Cooper, MD, MS 
Professor of Surgery,ColumbiaUniversityCollege of Physicians
and Surgeons; Director of Trauma and Pediatric Surgical
Services, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York
STABILIZING THE INJURED CHILD
 
 
Karoll J. Cortez, MD 
Staff Clinician, Immunocompromised Host Section, Pediatric
Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST
 
 
Andrew T. Costarino Jr., MD 
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Medicine, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children,
Wilmington, Delaware
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
 
 
Robert A. Cowles, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Assistant Attending Surgeon, Division of Pediatric Surgery,
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE UMBILICUS
 
 
Susan E. Crawford, MD  
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine; Staff, Children’s
Memorial Hospital ; Research Associate, Department of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Chicago Pritzker
School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois
STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
 
 
James T. Cullinan, DO 
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Neurobiology, Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of
Medicine; Inpatient Medical Director, Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital of Alabama , Birmingham ,
Alabama
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Ilan Dalal, MD  
Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University , Tel Aviv; Staff Physician, Pediatric Allergy/
Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Edith
Wolfson Medical Center , Holon, Israel
URTICARIA AND ANGIOEDEMA
 
 
David A. Dasher, MD 
Resident Physician, Department of Internal Medicine UNC
Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PSORIASIS AND OTHER PAPULOSQUAMOUS DISORDERS
 
 
Robert S. Daum, MD, CM  
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor, Committee on
Microbiology and Professor, Committee on Molecular
Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine;
Section Chief , Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of
Chicago Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
 
 
Gustavo H. Dayan, MD 
Medical Epidemiologist, National Immunization Program,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta , Georgia
RUBELLA
 
 
Peter S. Dayan, MD, MSc 
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Assistant
Attending, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Emergency Medicine, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of
NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
MAMMALIAN BITES AND BITE-RELATED INFECTIONS
 
 
Dorr G. Dearborn, PhD, MD
Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health
Science, Department of Pediatrics,
Case School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Pulmonary
Division, and Rainbow Babies Children’s Hospital,
Cleveland, Ohio
DIFFUSE ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE (PULMONARY SIDEROSIS)
 
 
Gustavo Del Toro, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Director,
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation, Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York ,
New York
BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
 
 
Gail J. Demmler, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Director,
Diagnostic Virology Laboratory, and Attending Physician,
Infectious Diseases Service, Texas Children’s Hospital,
Houston, Texas
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS
 
 
Catherine L. Dent, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine ; Staff Physician, Division of Pediatric
Cardiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN CHILDREN
 
 
Lianne M. deSerres, MD, MS 
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck
Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Attending, Physician, Otolaryngology–Head and
Neck Surgery, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, New
York–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY
 
 
James G. H. Dinulos, MD  
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
(Dermatology), Dartmouth Medical School ; Attending
Pediatrician, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ,
Lebanon, New Hampshire
MANAGEMENT OF GENETIC SKIN DISORDERS
 
 
Mary Beth Dinulos, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School ;
Attending Pediatrician, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
MANAGEMENT OF GENETIC SKIN DISORDERS
 
 
Samuel R. Dominguez, MD, PhD 
Staff Physician, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases,
The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
 
 
Marc E. Dovey, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Joan and Sanford I. Weill
Medical College of Cornell University ; Chief, Division of
Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Immunology,
Department of Pediatrics, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital ,
New York, New York
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
 
 
J. Scott Doyle, MD  
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of
Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine; Pediatric
Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Children’s Hospital of Alabama ,
Birmingham, Alabama
DISORDERS OF THE SPINE AND SHOULDER GIRDLE
 
 
Amy L. Drendel, DO, MS 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of
Wisconsin ; Attending Physician, Department of Pediatric
Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin ,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ROTATIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PROBLEMS OF THE EXTREMITIES
 
 
Alistair J. A. Duff, MD 
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Paediatric
Psychology Services, Department of Clinical and Health
Psychology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, England
ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS LIVING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
 
 
Morven S. Edwards, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine;
Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Texas
Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
 
 
Lisa M. Elden, MD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Associate,
Pediatric Otolaryngology, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF THE NECK

 
Wafaa M. El-Sadr, MD, MPH  
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, Mailman
School of Public Health and College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University ; Chief, Division of
Infectious Diseases, Harlem Hospital Center, New York ,
New York
TUBERCULOSIS
 
 
S. Jean Emans, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ; Chief,
Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Department of
Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston ,
Massachusetts
ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
 
 
Moshe Ephros, MD , FAAP  
Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology;
Senior Pediatrician and Consultant in Infectious Diseases,
Department of Pediatrics, Carmel Medical Center , Haifa , Israel
CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
 
 
Jacquelyn R. Evans, MD 
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Medical Director, Newborn Infant
Center, Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS
 
 
Avroy A. Fanaroff, MB, BCh  
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Case School
of Medicine; Eliza Henry Barnes Chair of Neonatology,
Department of Pediatrics, and Physician-in-Chief, Rainbow
Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
PENNATAL CARE AT THE THRESHOLD OF VIABILITY
 
 
Stephen A. Feig, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA; Chief Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department
of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Los
Angeles, California
THE CHILD CURED OF CANCER
 
 
Leonard G. Feld, MD, PhD 
Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School ,
Newark ; Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Goryeb
Children’s Hospital–Atlantic Health System, Morristown ,
New Jersey
FEVER IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO 3 YEARS
 
 
Heidi M. Feldman, MD, PhD  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine; Staff Physician, Child Development Unit,
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
 
 
Neil A. Feldstein, MD 
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery,
Department of Neurological Surgery, New York –
Presbyterian Hospital ; Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
EPIDURAL AND SUBDURAL HEMATOMAS; DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF CHIARI I MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS
 
 
Polly J. Ferguson, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa
Lucille A. and Roy J. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City ,
Iowa
PEDIATRIC SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
 
 
William S. Ferguson, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, St. Louis University School of
Medicine; Director of Hematology-Oncology, Cardinal
Glennon Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
VISCERAL TUMORS
 
 
Dorothy Fielding, MSc, PhD, ABPsS  
Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Leeds
University; Head of Psychological Services, Department of
Clinical and Health Psychology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Trust–St. James’s University Hospital , Leeds , United
Kingdom
ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS LIVING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
 
 
Neil N. Finer, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Neonatology,
Department of Pediatrics, University of California , San Diego ,
School of Medicine ; Associate, Department of Neonatology,
Children’s Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California
PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION OF THE NEWBORN
 
 
Richard S. Finkel, MD  
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director,
Neuromuscular Program, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
 
 
Lewis R. First, MD, MS 
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, and Senior
Associate Dean for Medical Education, University of
Vermont College of Medicine; Chief of Pediatrics, Vermont
Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care,
Burlington, Vermont
SCREENING IN THE NEWBORN INFANT: HEARING LOSS, RISK OF SEVERE HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FOREIGN BODIES IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
  
 
John T. Flynn, MD  
Anne S. Cohen, Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology,
Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending, Department of
Ophthalmology, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital ,
New York, New York
RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY
 
 
Marc D. Foca, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Assistant Attending,
Department of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children’s
Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
PNEUMONIA; CATHETER-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
 
 
Thomas P. Foley Jr., MD  
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, School
of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health,
University of Pittsburgh ; Emeritus Staff, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh ,
Pennsylvania
THYROID DISORDERS
 
 
John W. Foreman, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine;
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of
Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center , Durham , North
Carolina
THE NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
 
 
Anna Keating Franklin, MD  
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
ACUTE LEUKEMIA
 
 
Lisa M. Frenkel, M.D.  
Professor of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, University
of Washington School of Medicine; Associate, Department of
Infectious Disease, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical
Center, Seattle, Washington
ANTIVIRAL THERAPIES
 
 
Sheila Fallon Friedlander, MD  
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Dermatology),
University of California , San Diego, School of Medicine ;
Attending Staff, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s
Hospital and Health Center–San Diego, San Diego ,
California
FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN, HAIR, AND NAILS
 
 
Sandeep Gangadharan, MD  
Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgian, New York, New York ;
Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s
Hospital of New York, New York, New York
RESPIRATORY FAILURE
 
 
Soren Gantt, MD, PhD  
Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center /
University of Washington School of Medicine , Seattle ,
Washington
ANTIVIRAL THERAPIES
 
 
Samuel J. Garber, MD  
Clinical Associate, Division of Neonatology, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NEONATAL SEPSIS
 
 
Mark C. Gebhardt, MD  
Frederick W. and Jane M. Ilfeld Professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Orthopaedic
Surgery, and Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center , Boston, Massachusetts
MALIGNANT TUMORS OF BONE AND LIMB SALVAGE
 
 
Robert H. Gelber, MD  
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Dermatology, University
of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine , San
Francisco, California ; Scientific Director, Epidemiology
Branch, Leonard Wood Memorial Center for Leprosy
Research, Cebu City, Philippines
LEPROSY (HANSEN DISEASE)
 
 
Andrew R. Gennery, MD 
Senior Lecturer, Paediatric Immunology and Bone Marrow
Transplantation, Department of Clinical Medical Sciences
(Child Health), University of Newcastle upon Tyne ;
Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Immunology and Bone
Marrow Transplantation, Children’s BMT Unit, Newcastle
General Hospital , Newcastle upon Tyne, England
PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROMES
 
 
Michael A. Gerber, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine; Attending Physician, Division of Infectious
Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS
 
 
Karen I. Gerber-Vecsey, MD  
Fellow, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University at
Buffalo SUNY School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
and The Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo , Buffalo ,
New York
RHABDOMYOLYSIS
 
 
Sezelle Gereau, MD  
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric
Otolaryngology, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; Attending Otolaryngologist, Department of
Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children’s Hospital of New York ,
New York, New York
DISORDERS OF THE NECK AND PAROTID
 
 
John A. Germiller, MD, PhD  
Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Division of
Otolaryngology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
LABYRINTHITIS
 
 
Anne A. Gershon, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Physician, Department
of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of
NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
VARICELLA-ZOSTER INFECTIONS
 
 
Fred E. Ghali, MD  
Private Practice, Pediatric Dermatology of North Texas , P.A.,
Grapevine, Texas
ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMATITIS
 
 
Saadi Ghatan, MD  
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York; Valley Hospital ,
Ridgewood, New Jersey; and Northern Westchester Hospital ,
Mt. Kisco, New York
MYELOMENINGOCELE
 
 
Eric Gibson, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College
of Thomas Jefferson University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ;
Staff Pediatrics, Alexis I. duPont Hospital for Children,
Wilmington, Delaware
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
 
 
Michael Giladi, MD, MSc  
Director, Infectious Disease Unit and Bernard Pridan
Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Tel
Aviv Medical Center , Tel Aviv, Israel
CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
 
 
Neelam Giri, MD  
Staff Clinician, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute,
Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville ,
Maryland
ACQUIRED APLASTIC ANEMIA
 
 
Wallace A. Gleason Jr., MD  
Professor and Assistant Dean, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Texas–Houston Medical School; Chief,
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition,
Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital and Lyndon B.
Johnson General Hospital , Houston, Texas
CONJUGATED AND UNCONJUGATED HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA AND
DISORDERS OF THE BILIARY TREE
 
 
Benjamin D. Gold, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of
Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Chief of
Gastroenterology Service, Egleston Children’s Hospital
Campus, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION
 
 
Eric F. Grabowski, MD, DrEngrSci  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Pediatrician and Director, Program in Pediatric Hemostasis
and Thrombosis, and Director, Cardiovascular Thrombosis
Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital ; also,
Chairman, New England Retinoblastoma Group, Boston ,
Massachusetts
DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS WITH AND WITHOUT PULMONARY EMBOLISM; INTRAOCULAR AND EXTRAOCULAR RETINOBLASTOMA
 
 
Philip L. Graham III, MD, MS  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Assistant Attending
Physician, Department of Pediatrics, NewYork–Presbyterian
Hospital, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian ,
New York, New York
HEALTH CARE–ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
 
 
David E. Green, MD  
Director and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of
Medicine–Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, Huntsville ,
Alabama
ADOLESCENT CONTRACEPTION
 
 
Rebecca P. Green, MD, PhD  
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology, Washington University School of Medicine in
St. Louis ; Staff Physician, Department of Pediatrics,
St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital ,
St. Louis, Missouri
DIABETES INSIPIDUS, SIADH, AND CEREBRAL SALT WASTING
 
 
Robert A. Green, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Associate Director,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University
Medical Center, New York, New York
MAMMALIAN BITES AND BITE-RELATED INFECTIONS
 
 
Donald E. Greydanus, MD, FAAP, FSAM, FIAP(H)  
Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine,
Kalamazoo and East Lansing ; Program Director,
Department of Pediatrics, MSU/Kalamazoo Center for
Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Eli Grunstein, MD  
Resident Physician, Department of Otolaryngology–Head
and Neck Surgery, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital , New
York, New York
DISORDERS OF THE NECK AND PAROTID
 
 
Warren G. Guntheroth, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), University of
Washington School of Medicine; Attending Physician,
University of Washington Medical Center , Division of
Pediatric Cardiology, Seattle, Washington
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
 
 
Hector H. Gutierrez, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine , Birmingham, Alabama
PULMONARY SARCOIDOSIS
 
 
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD  
Professor of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine ; Staff Pediatrician, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE I
 
 
Joseph Haddad, Jr., MD  
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Lawrence
Savetsky Chair and Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology/Head
and Neck Surgery, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
DISORDERS OF THE LARYNX; CHOANAL ATRESIA
 
 
Sophie Hambleton, MRCP, DPhil  
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pediatrics,
Pediatric Infectious Disease Division, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York ,
New York
PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROMES
 
 
Margaret R. Hammerschlag, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Director, Division of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics,
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
College of Medicine , Brooklyn, New York
CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS
 
 
Catherine A. Hansen, MD  
Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, Neonatal
Services, Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center ,
New York, New York
HYDROPS FETALIS
 
 
William G. Harmon, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric
Cardiology and Critical Care, University of Rochester School
of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
KAWASAKI DISEASE
 
 
Mary Catherine Harris, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff Physician,
Department of Neonatology, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NEONATAL SEPSIS
 
 
Rick E. Harrison, MD, FAAP  
Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA; Staff Physician, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA,
Los Angeles, California
BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH)
 
 
Meeghan A. Hart, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case School of Medicine;
Pediatric Pulmonologist, University Hospitals of Cleveland —
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
DIFFUSE ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE (PULMONARY SIDEROSIS)
 
 
Robert H. A. Haslam, MD, FAAP, FRCPC  
Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Department of
Pediatrics, Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University
of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Emeritus Pediatrician-in-
Chief, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto , Ontario, Canada
DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 
 
 
Sarmistha B. Hauger, MD   
Medical Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s
Hospital of Austin , Austin, Texas
YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA
 
 
William C. Heird, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine;
Children’s Nutrition Research Center , Houston, Texas
NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS OF TERM AND PRETERM INFANTS
 
 
Mellissa R. Held, MD  
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
TRICHINELLOSIS (TRICHINOSIS)
 
 
Mark A. Helfaer, MD  
Professor of Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine; Anesthesiologist, Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania , and Department of Anesthesia and Critical
Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DISORDERS OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL
 
 
Mark L. Helpin, DMD  
Section Head, Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral
Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center , Charlotte, North
Carolina
ORAL HEALTH
 
 
Karen D. Hendricks-Mun˜ oz, MD, MPH 
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, New York
University School of Medicine; Director of Neonatology, Tisch
Hospital and Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York
INFANTS OF DIABETIC MOTHERS
 
 
Theresa A. Hennessey, MD 
Resident, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Rainbow
Babies and Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of
Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
THE LIMPING CHILD
 
 
Erick Hernandez, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of
Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Miami Miller
School of Medicine ; Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Jackson
Memorial Hospital , Miami, Florida
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
 
 
Barry A. Hicks, MD  
Professor of Surgery, Department of Pediatric Surgery, The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center College of
Medicine; Chief, Surgical Services, Children’s Medical
Center of Dallas , Dallas, Texas
BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
 
 
Lee M. Hilliard, MD  
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology and
Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama
SICKLE CELL DISORDERS
 
 
David Henry Hiltzik, MD  
Resident, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck
Surgery, Columbia University, New York, New York
TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY 
 
 
Philip G. Holtzapple, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, State University of New York Health
Science Center , Syracuse, New York
CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION 
 
 
Kord Honda, MD  
Resident Physician, Department of Medicine, Division of
Dermatology, University of Washington , Medical Center ,
Seattle, Washington
DISORDERS OF PIGMENTATION
 
 
Maria-Arantxa Horga, MD 
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, New York ,
New York
RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
 
 
Duane R. Hospenthal, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor of Medicine, F. Edward He´bert School of
Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland ; Chief, Infectious Disease
Service, Brooke Army Medical Center , Fort Sam Houston ,
Texas ; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine,
University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio , San
Antonio, Texas
HISTOPLASMOSIS
 
 
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD  
Professor and Chair, Division of Microbiology and Tropical
Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine
and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS
 
 
Thomas H. Howard, MD  
Professor and Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology and
Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama
SICKLE CELL DISORDERS
 
 
Jimmy W. Huh, MD  
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff
Physician, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DISORDERS OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL
 
 
Janice Hutchinson, MD, MPH  
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Howard
University College of Medicine, Washington, DC
SUICIDE
 
 
Joshua E. Hyman, MD, FAAP 
Assistant Professor of Octhopaedic Surgery, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending
Surgeon, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s
Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York ,
New York
ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA
 
 
Lisa Imundo, MD  
Director, Pediatric Rheumatology, and Assistant Clinical
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Staff
Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian ,
New York, New York
IDIOPATHIC PAIN SYNDROMES AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME;
JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY
SYNDROMES
 
 
Julie R. Ingelfinger, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology, Department
of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology,
MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston ,
Massachusetts
SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
 
 
Esther Jacobowitz , MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School ;
Associate Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston ,
Massachusetts
GASTRITIS AND PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE
 
 
Ian N. Jacobs, MD  
Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck
Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ;
Attending, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
CROUP AND EPIGLOTTITIS
 
 
Richard F. Jacobs, MD, FAAP  
Horace C. Cabe, Professor of Pediatrics, University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine; Chief,
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Arkansas Children’s Hospital,
Little Rock, Arkansas
TULAREMIA
 
 
Peggy F. Jacobson, PhD, CCC-SP/L  
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Communication
Sciences, and Theatre, St. John’s University , Queens ,
New York
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: LANGUAGE, SPEECH, AND VOICE DISORDERS
 
 
Elka Jacobson-Dickman, MD  
Clinical and Research Fellow, Department of Pediatric
Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
GONADAL DISORDERS
 
 
Shirley Jankelevich, MD  
Medical Officer, Division of AIDS, (National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
MUCORMYCOSIS
 
 
Reneé R. Jenkins, MD  
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Child
Health, Howard University College of Medicine; Chair,
Department of Pediatrics, Howard University Hospital ,
Washington, DC
SUICIDE
 
 
Chandy C. John, MD, MS  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics University of Minnesota
Medical School ; Director, Global Pediatrics Program,
Pediatrics (Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases),
University of Minnesota Children ’s Hospital–Fairview,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
MALARIA
 
 
Jeffrey L. Jones, MD, MPH  
Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Parasitic Diseases,
National Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
TOXOPLASMOSIS
 
 
S. Anne Joseph, MBBS  
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, Medical College of
Wisconsin; Staff Physician, Neuroscience Center , Children’s
Hospital of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
 
 
Harald W. Jüppner, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Chief, Pediatric Nephrology, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts
General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
DISORDERS OF THE PARATHYROIDS, HYPOCALCEMIA, AND
HYPERCALCEMIA
 
 
Angela Kadenhe-Chiweshe, MD 
Resident, General Surgery, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
NEONATAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
 
 
Jessica A. Kahn, MD, MPH  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine ; Staff Physician, Division of Adolescent
Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
 
 
Philip J. Kahn, MD  
Fellow in Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of
NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY
SYNDROMES
 
 
Daniel S. Kamin, MD
Clinical Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s
Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS
 
 
Peter B. Kang, MD  
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School ; Assistant
in Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston; Research
Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston ,
Massachusetts
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
 
 
Gaurav Kapur, MD 
Fellow in Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics,
Wayne State University School of Medicine and Children’s
Hospital of Michigan , Detroit, Michigan
ACUTE RENAL FAILURE
 
 
Manoochehr Karjoo, MD 
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION
 
 
Frederick J. Kaskel, MD, PhD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair, Affiliate and Network
Relations, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University; Chief, Section of Nephrology, Children’s Hospital
at Montefiore, Bronx, New York
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
 
 
Ben Z. Katz, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University,
Feinberg School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Division
of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Memorial Hospital ,
Chicago, Illinois
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
 
 
Joseph D. Kay, MD  
Assistant Professor of Adult and Pediatric Cardiology,
University of Colorado School of Medicine , Denver, Colorado
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
 
 
Ken Kazahaya, MD, MBA  
Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology–
Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Director, Pediatric Skull Base Surgery,
and Associate Medical Director, Cochlear Implant Program,
Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, The Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
LABYRINTHITIS
 
 
James P. Keating, MD, MSc  
W. McKim Marriott Professor of Pediatrics, Washington
University in St. Louis School of Medicine; Staff Pediatrician,
St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
MALABSORPTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION
 
 
Jeffrey L. Keller, MD, FACS, FAAP 
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Otolaryngology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Attending Physician,
Department of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai Hospital ,
New York; Northern Westchester Hospital Center ,
and Mount Kisco Medical Group, Mount Kisco, New York
PEDIATRIC RHINITIS AND ACUTE AND CHRONIC SINUSITIS
 
 
Kent R. Kelley, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics,
Department of Pediatric Neurology, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine; Attending in
Clinical Pediatrics and Neurology, Children’s Epilepsy
Center, Children’s Memorial Hospital , Chicago, Illinois
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
 
 
Leila M. Khazaeni, MD  
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology,
Loma Linda University School of Medicine; Attending
Physician, Department of Opthalmology, Loma Linda
University Health care, Loma Linda, California
AMBLYOPIA; STRABISMUS; NASOLACRIMAL DUCT OBSTRUCTION; RED EYE
 
 
Todd J. Kilbaugh, MD 
Fellow, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine
and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania school of
Medicine, and Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DISORDERS OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL
 
 
Brigid K. Killelea, MD, MPH
Research Fellow, International Center for Health Outcomes
and Innovation Research, College of Physicians and
Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University ; Pediatric Surgeon, NewYork–
Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
PNEUMOTHORAX AND PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM
 
 
David W. Kimberlin, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine , Birmingham, Alabama
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
 
 
T. Bernard Kinane, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Staff Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital for
Children, Boston, Massachusetts
ASTHMA
 
 
Ronald E. Kleinman, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ; Chief,
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CONSTIPATION; ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS;CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION
 
 
Alex Kline, MD  
Neonatal Fellow, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas
Jefferson University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
 
 
Martin Kluckow, MBBS, PhD  
Senior Lecturer in Obestetrics and Gynaecology, University
of Sydney Faculty of Medicine; Senior Neonatologist,
Royal North Shore Hospital , Sydney, New South Wales , Australia
HYPOTENSION IN THE NEONATE
 
 
William C. Koch, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious
Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University School of
Medicine; Attending Physician, Children’s Medical Center ,
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals , Richmond, Virginia
PARVOVIRUS INFECTION
 
 
Linda M. Kollar, RN, MSN  
Director of Clinical Services, Division of Adolescent
Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
 
 
Peter J. Koltai, MD, FACS, FAAP  
Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Stanford University
School of Medicine ; Chief, Division of Pediatric
Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford
Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, California
FACIAL AND MIDDLE EAR TRAUMA
 
 
Susan Konek, MA, RD, CSP, LDN  
Inpatient Clinical Nutrition Manager and Nutrition Support
Coordinator, Department of Clinical Nutrition, The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND EXCESSES
 
 
Harold S. Koplewicz, MD  
Arnold & Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry;
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
New York University School of Medicine; Director, NYU
Child Study Center, New York, New York
PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS
 
 
Christian M. Korff, MD  
Fellow, Epilepsy Center , Neurology Service, Children’s
Memorial Hospital , Chicago, Illinois
STATUS EPILEPTICUS
 
 
Paul R. Krakovitz, MD 
Pediatric Surgeon, Section of Pediatric Otolaryngology,
Department of Otolaryngology, The Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland, Ohio
FACIAL AND MIDDLE EAR TRAUMA
 
 
Peter J. Krause, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of
Medicine, Farmington ; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center , Hartford ,
Connecticut
BABESIOSIS
 
 
Paul Krogstad, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular and Medical
Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
Los Angeles, California
OSTEOMYELITIS; SEPTIC ARTHRITIS
 
 
Christine J. Kubin, PharmD, BCPS 
Assistant in Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Pharmacist,
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York ;
Affiliate Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Pharmacy ,
St. John’s University , Queens, New York
CANDIDIASIS; ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
 
 
Taco W. Kuijpers, MD, PhD 
Professor and Staff Physician, Department of Pediatric
Hematology, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, Emma
Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
COMPLEMENT DISORDERS AND LECTIN PATHWAY
 
 
Louis M. Kunkel, PhD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Department of
Genetics, Harvard Medical School ; Director, Program in
Genomics, Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital
Boston ; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Boston, Massachusetts
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
 
 
Lori M. B. Laffel, MD, MPH  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Staff, Pediatric and Adolescent Unit, Behavioral Research
and Mental Health Section/Genetics and Epidemiology
Section, Joslin Diabetes Center ; Staff Physician, Department
of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston ,
Massachusetts
DIABETES MELLITUS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Craig B. Langman, MD  
Isaac A. Abt, MD, Professor of Kidney Diseases
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine; Division Head, Kidney
Diseases, Children’s Memorial Hospital , Chicago ,
Illinois
NEPHROLITHIASIS
 
 
Marc R. Laufer, MD  
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and
Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School ; Chief,
Division of Pediatric/Adolescent Gynecology, Reproductive
Medicine/Gynecologic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital; Chief of Gynecology/Associate in Surgery/Co-
Director Center for Young Women’s Health, Department of
Gynecology, Children’s Hospital Boston; Active Medical
Staff, Department of Gynecology, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
 
 
Jane M. Lavelle, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Attending, Division of Pediatric
Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
EPISTAXIS AND NASAL TRAUMA
 
 
William V. La Via, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of
Medicine of USC; Attending Physician, Division of Infectious
Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, California
CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS
 
 
Jane S. Lee, MD, MPH  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending
Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
MANAGEMENT OF THE INFANT IN THE DELIVERY ROOM
 
 
Mary Min-Chin Lee, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical
School; Director, Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Division,
Department of Pediatrics, UMass Memorial Medical
Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL GLAND
 
 
Beth A. Leeman, MD 
Clinical and Research Fellow, Department of Neurology,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE I
 
 
Leslie E. Lehmann, MD  
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Interim Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation,
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston ,
Massachusetts
BURKITT LYMPHOMA
 
 
Kevin V. Lemley, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University School
of Medicine; Attending Nephrologist, Department of
Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center , Stanford,
California
RENAL VEIN THROMBOSIS
 
 
Tina A. Leone, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California ,
San Diego, School of Medicine ; Neonatologist,
University of California , San Diego, Medical Center ,
San Diego, California
PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION OF THE NEWBORN
 
 
Donald Y. M. Leung, MD, PhD  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of
Medicine; Head, Division of Pediatric Allergy and
Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish
Medical and Research Center , Denver, Colorado
ATOPIC DERMATITIS
 
 
Lynne L. Levitsky, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Chief, Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL GLAND
 
 
John C. Lin, MD  
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ;
Staff Physician, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh ,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Staff Pediatric Intensivist,
Department of Pediatrics, Wilford Hall Medical Center , San
Antonio, Texas
MANAGEMENT OF SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK
 
 
Steven E. Lipshultz, MD 
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics;
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; and Professor
of Medicine (Oncology), University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine; Chief-of-Staff, Holtz Children’s Hospital of the
University of Miami–Jackson Memorial Medical Center ;
Director, Batchelor Children’s Research Institute; Associate
Director, Mailman Institute for Child Development; and
Member, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center , Miami ,
Florida
KAWASAKI DISEASE
 
 
Irene M. Loe, MD  
Fellow, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
 
 
Anthony M. Loizides, M.D.  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University ; Attending Physician, Department of
Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children’s
Hospital at Montefiore and Bronx-Lebanon Medical Center ,
Bronx, New York
ALLERGIC GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
 
 
Sarah S. Long, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Dreyel University College of
Medicine; Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases,
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
INFANT BOTULISM
 
 
Naomi L. C. Lubin, MD 
Interim Executive Director, Center for Cancer and Blood
Disorders; Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and
Director, Transfusion Medicine/The Edward J. Miller Donor
Center, Children’s National Medical Center ; Vice Chair for
Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics, and Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, George
Washington University School of Medicine and Health
Sciences, Washington, DC
COMPLICATIONS OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION
 
 
Jon F. Lucas, MD 
Instructor in Pediatric Cardiology, Medical University
of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston ,
South Carolina
INNOCENT MURMURS
 
 
Jeffrey Lukish, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Department of
Surgery, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine ; Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences; Pediatric
Surgeon, National Naval Medical Center , Bethesda ,
Maryland ; Pediatric Surgeon, Walter Reed Army Medical
Center and Children’s National Medical Center ,
Washington, DC
BURNS
 
 
G. Reid Lyon, PhD 
 
Executive Vice President for Research and Evaluation, Best
Associates and Whitney University , Dallas, Texas
DYSLEXIA (SPECIFIC READING DISABILITY)
 
 
Christopher M. Makris, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Medical Director, Sleep
Disorder Center , Children’s Hospital, of Alabama ,
Birmingham, Alabama
COMMON SLEEP DISORDERS
 
 
Michael A. Manfredi, MD
 
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston; and
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
GASTRITIS AND PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE
 
 
John F. Marcinak, MD 
 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois
BLASTOMYCOSIS: RECOGNITION, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT

 
David Markenson, MD, FAAP  
Director, Center for Disaster Medicine/ New York Medical
College School of Public Health; Chief, Pediatric Emergency
Medicine, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester
Medical Center/Emergency Medical Associates; Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics, New York Medical College ,
Valhalla, New York
BIOTERRORISM
 
 
Richard J. Martin, MBBS, FRACP  
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Reproductive Biology,
Physiology, and Biophysics, Case School of Medicine;
Director, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics,
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
APNEA OF PREMATURITY
 
 
Maria R. Mascarenhas, MBBS 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Director, Nutrition Support Service;
Assistant Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center; Attending
Gastroenterologist and Section Chief, Division of
Gastrointestinal and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND EXCESSES
 
 
Joelle Mast, PhD, MD  
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology,
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York ; Vice
President, Chief Medical Officer, Chief of Pediatrics, and
Attending Neurologist, Blythedale Children’s Hospital,
Valhalla ; Assistant Attending Pediatrician, NewYork–
Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
CEREBRAL PALSY
 
 
Tej K. Mattoo, MD, DCH, FRCP()  
Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of
Medicine; Chief, Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of
Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
ACUTE RENAL FAILURE
 
 
Dominic J. Maxwell, MD  
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine , Birmingham, Alabama
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Lynnette J. Mazur, MD, MPH  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at
Houston, Houston, Texas
DIARRHEA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX
 
 
Erin E. McGintee, MD  
Fellow, Department of Allergy and Immunology, The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
ANAPHYLAXIS
 
 
Marianne McPherson, MD 
Resident in Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center ,
Washington, DC
IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
 
 
Denise W. Metry, MD  
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics, Baylor
College of Medicine; Chief, Pediatric Dermatology Clinic,
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
CHRONIC, NONHEREDITARY BULLOUS DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD 
 
 
Francisca Okolo MgBodile, MD  
AssistantProfessor of Psychiatry andBehavioralNeurobiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine;
Assistant Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Alabama Health Service Foundation;
Attending Physician, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Children’s Hospital of Alabama , Birmingham, Alabama
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
William Middlesworth, MD  
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery
(Pediatrics), Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Assistant Assending Surgeon, Children’s Hospital
of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
NEONATAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
 
 
Monte D. Mills, MD 
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
AMBLYOPIA; STRABISMUS; NASOLACRIMAL DUCT OBSTRUCTION; RED EYE
 
 
Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Assistant in Pediatrics and Assistant in Biology, Pediatric
Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Units, Massachusetts
General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
DISORDERS OF PUBERTY; GONADAL DISORDERS
 
 
Mark Mitsnefes, MD, MS  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati College of
Medicine; Staff Physician, Division of Nephrology and
Hypertension, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION AND THE CHILD AT RISK FOR
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
 
 
Laura Montgomery-Barefield, MD 
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Medical Director of
Outpatient Services, Division of Child Psychiatry,
Department of Children’s Behavioral Health, Children’s
Health System, Birmingham, Alabama
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Cynthia W. Moore, PhD  
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ; Child
Psychologist, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
THE CHILD AND THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE
 
 
Derek W. Moore, MD  
Resident, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NewYork–
Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA
 
 
Dean S. Morrell, MD  
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill ,
North Carolina
PSORIASIS AND OTHER PAPULOSQUAMOUS DISORDERS
 
 
Erin Morris, RN, BSN  
Clinical Research Nurse, Department of Pediatrics,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Clinical Research Nurse, Department of Pediatrics, Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian,
New York, New York
NEONATAL AND CHILDHOOD NEUTROPENIA; BLOOD AND
MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
 
 
Anne Moscona, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology,
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College at Cornell
University; Attending Physician and Vice Chair for
Research, Department of Pediatrics, NewYork–Presbyterian
Hospital, New York, New York
SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS); RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
 
 
Scott Moses, MD  
Family Physician/Staff Physician, Fairview Lakes Regional
Medical Center, Wyoming, Minnesota ; Family Physician,
Fairview Lino Lakes Clinic, Fairview Health Systems, Lino
Lakes, Minnesota
PRURITUS
 
 
Louis J. Muglia, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University in
St. Louis School of Medicine; Director, Division of
Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
DIABETES INSIPIDUS, SIADH, AND CEREBRAL SALT WASTING
 
 
Karen F. Murray, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
School of Medicine ; Director, Hepatobiliary Program,
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology,
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center , Seattle ,
Washington
VIRAL HEPATITIS
 
 
Karna Murthy, MD  
Fellow, Division of Pediatric Neonatology, The Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia , and University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS
 
 
Erich N. Mussak, BS 
Medical Student, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York, New York
CHOANAL ATRESIA
 
 
Sharon A. Nachman, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of
Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
LISTERIOSIS; ASPERGILLOSIS
 
 
Martin A. Nash, MD  
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Director of Pediatric Nephrology, Morgan Stanley Children’s
Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCIES
 
 
Herbert L. Needleman, MD  
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
LEAD TOXICITY
 
 
Josef Neu, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of
Medicine; Staff Pediatrician, Shands Hospital at University
of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
 
 
Natalie Neu, MD  
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending, Department of
Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES; CANDIDIASIS
 
 
Jesica A. Neuhart, MD  
Resident in Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health
Science Center , New Orleans, Louisiana
CHOLERA
 
 
Yoram Nevo, MD 
Director, Neuropediatric Unit, Hadassah, Hebrew
University Medical Center , Jerusalem, Israel
ACUTE AND CHRONIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED POLYNEUROPATHY
 
 
Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH  
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ; Associate
Cardiologist-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston ,
Massachusetts
KAWASAKI DISEASE
 
 
Peter Ngo, MD  
Clinical and Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Division of
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston
Massachusetts
NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CONSTIPATION
 
 
Douglas R. Nordli, Jr., MD 
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical
Practice, Department of Neurology, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine; Director, Epilepsy
Center, Department of Neurology, Children’s Memorial
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
STATUS EPILEPTICUS; FEBRILE SEIZURES
 
 
Robert L. Norris, MD, FACEP  
Associate Professor of Surgery, Stanford University School of
Medicine; Chief, Emergency Medicine, Stanford Hospital and
Clinics, Stanford, California
VENOMOUS SNAKEBITE
 
 
Melvin D. Oatis, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of
Child Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine;
Director of Pediatric Consultation Liaison Services, Tisch
Hospital, New York, New York
PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS
 
 
Theresa J. Ochoa, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Universidad Peruana
Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
CAMPYLOBACTER ; NONTYPHOIDAL SALMONELLA; SHIGELLOSIS;
TYPHOID FEVER
 
 
Alfred T. Ogden, MD  
Resident in Neurological Surgery, Neurological Institute,
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital , and Children’s Hospital of
NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
EPIDURAL AND SUBDURAL HEMATOMAS
 
 
David P. Olson, MD, PhD  
Instructor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of
Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School ; Staff, Children’s
Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
GYNECOMASTIA
 
 
Walter A. Orenstein, MD  
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director, Vaccine
Policy and Development, Emory University School of
Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
MEASLES; RUBELLA
 
 
David Osborn, MBBS, MM, FRACP  
Neonatologist, RPA Newborn Care, Royal Prince Alfred
Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
HYPOTENSION IN THE NEONATE
 
 
Eugenia K. Pallotto, MD, MSCE  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of
Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine; Attending
Neonatologist, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics,
Kansas City, Missouri
HYPOGLYCEMIA IN THE NEWBORN INFANT
 
 
Howard B. Panitch, MD 
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Senior Physician, Department of
Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, The Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
EMPHYSEMA
 
 
Robert H. Pass, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Physician and
Director of Pediatric Arrhythmia Service, Department of
Pediatrics, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital , Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian,
New York, New York
STABILIZATION OF THE NEONATE WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
 
 
Dilip R. Patel, MD, FAAP, FAACPDM, FACSM, FSAM  
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human
Development, Michigan State University College of Human
Medicine; Staff, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Marc C. Patterson, MD, FRACP  
Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics and Head,
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Departments of Neurology
and Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; Director of Pediatric Neurology,
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York ,
New York
PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI SYNDROME
 
 
Richard H. Pearl, MD, FACS, FAAP, FRCSC 
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Department of Surgery,
University of Illinois College of Medicine; Surgeon-in-Chief,
Children’s Hospital of Illinois , Peoria, Illinois
BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
 
 
Antonio Luis Perez, AB 
Medical Student, Harvard Medical School , Boston ,
Massachusetts
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
 
 
Elizabeth A. Perkett, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico School of
Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA IN THE NEONATE
 
 
Jeffrey M. Perlman, MB, ChB 
Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University; Division Chief, Newborn Medicine,
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
NEONATAL SEIZURES; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE IN THE NEWBORN
 
 
Robert T. Perry, MD MPH 
Medical Epidemiologist, Global Measles Branch, National
Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
MEASLES
 
 
Robert H. Pfister, MD
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Neonatology, University of Vermont College of Medicine ;
Fellow of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Vermont Children’s
Hospital, Burlington, Vermont
RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
 
 
Jeanette R. Pleasure, MD  
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology,
University of California , Davis, School of Medicine , Davis;
Attending Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of UCDavis ,
Sacramento California
TETANUS NEONATORUM
 
 
Ronald L. Poland, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico School of
Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
TREATMENT OF NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA
 
 
Rajani Prabhakaran, MD  
Clinical and Research Fellow, Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, and
Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts
DISORDERS OF PUBERTY
 
 
Alice Prince, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending
Pediatrician, Childrens Hospital of New York, New York ,
New York
BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ANTIFUNGAL THERAPIES
 
 
Naveen Qureshi, MD  
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellow, Children’s
Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, Oakland ,
California
THALASSEMIA
 
 
Malcolm Rabie, MBBCh(Wits), FCP(SA) Neurol  
Staff Physician, Neuropediatric Unit, Hadassah, Hebrew
University Medical Center , Jerusalem, Israel
ACUTE AND CHRONIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED POLYNEUROPATHY
 
 
Sally Radovick, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine; Chief, Division of
Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore,
Maryland
HYPOPITUITARISM AND GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY
 
 
Sujatha Rajan, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University , Bronx ; Staff Physician,
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Schneider
Children’s Hospital at North Shore , Long Island Jewish
Health System, Manhasset, New York
IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES
 
 
David I. Rappaport, MD 
Department of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College of
Thomas Jefferson University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ;
Staff Physician, Division of General Pediatrics, Alfred I.
duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
INTESTINAL PROTOZOA
 
 
Paula K. Rauch, MD  
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ;
Director, Child Psychiatry Consultation Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
THE CHILD AND THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE
 
 
Saran Anne Rawstron, MBBS  
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, State
University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of
Medicine; Pediatric Residency Program Director, The
Brooklyn Hospital Center , Brooklyn, New York
SYPHILIS
 
 
Irwin Redlener, MD 
Associate Dean and Director, National Center for Disaster
Preparedness, Columbia University Mailman School of
Public Health, New York, New York ; President & Co-founder
The Children’s Health Fund New York, NY
BIOTERRORISM
 
 
Michael D. Reed, PharmD, FCCP, FCP  
Professor of Pediatrics, Case School of Medicine; Director,
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology, Rainbow Babies
and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
APNEA OF PREMATURITY
 
 
Susan E. Reef, MD 
Medical Epidemiologist, National Immunization Program,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
RUBELLA
 
 
Michael J. Rieder, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAAP, FRCP 
( Glasgow )
Professor of Paediatrics, Physiology and Pharmacology, and
Medicine, University of Western Ontario Schulich School of
Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
DRUG REACTIONS AND THE SKIN
 
 
Steven Alan Ringer, MD, PhD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
HEMOLYTIC DISEASES OF THE NEWBORN
 
 
James J. Riviello, Jr., MD 
Professor of Neurology, Harvard University Medical School ;
Director, Epilepsy Program, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical
Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, Children’s
Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
GENERAL CONCEPTS IN SEIZURE MANAGEMENT
 
 
E. Steve Roach, MD 
Professor of Neurology and Director, Comprehensive
Epilepsy Center , Department of Neurology, Wake Forest
University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem ,
North Carolina
TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX
 
 
Jennifer L. Robbins, MD 
Fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois
HYPOPITUITARISM AND GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY
 
 
Lisa-Gaye Robinson, MD  
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of
Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Assistant Attending, Department of Pediatrics,
Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York
NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; TUBERCULOSIS
 
 
Peter N. Robinson, MD  
Institute of Medical Genetics, Charité University Hospital
and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
MARFAN SYNDROME
 
 
Lauren M. Robitaille, PharmD 
Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Department of Pharmacy,
New York–Presbyterian Hospital, New York ,
New York
ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
 
 
Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH  
Professor of Otolaryngology, State University of New York
Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine; Director,
Pediatric Otolaryngology, Long Island College Hospital and
University Hospital of Brooklyn , Brooklyn, New York
OTITIS MEDIA
 
 
Joel R. Rosh, MD, FAAP, FACG  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and
Dentistry–New Jersey Medical School ; Director, Pediatric
Gastroenterology, Atlantic Health System, Morristown , New
Jersey
ABDOMINAL PAIN: APPROACH TO A DIAGNOSIS
 
 
N. Paul Rosman, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Boston University
School of Medicine ; Senior Neurologist, Department of
Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center , Boston, Massachusetts
HEAD INJURY
 
 
Philip Roth, MD, PhD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, State University of New
York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine,
Brooklyn ; Director of Neonatology and Associate Chairman,
Department of Pediatrics, Staten Island University Hospital ,
Staten Island, New York
BIRTH INJURIES
 
 
Benjamin D. Roye, MD, MPH  
Assistant Professor and Division Chief, Pediatric
Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
TORTICOLLIS
 
 
David P. Roye, MD  
St. Giles Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Chief, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian,
NewYork, New York
TORTICOLLIS
 
 
Shehzad A. Saeed, MD, FAAP 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition Sciences,
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine;
Staff Physician, The Children’s Hospital of Alabama ,
Birmingham, Alabama
ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
 
 
Lisa Saiman, MD, MPH 
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Staff Pediatrician, NewYork–Presbyterian Medical Center
and Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian ,
New York, New York
ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPIES
 
 
Howard W. Sander, MD  
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology,
Department of Neurology, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University; Associate Director, Peripheral Neuropathy
Center, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York ,
New York
ACUTE AND CHRONIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED POLYNEUROPATHY
 
 
J. Philip Saul, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, Pediatric Cardiology,
Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South
Carolina College of Medicine; Medical Director, Department
of Pediatrics, MUSC Children’s Hospital, Charleston ,
South Carolina
INNOCENT MURMURS
 
 
Jeffrey R. Sawyer, MD, FAAOS, FAAP 
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, University of
Tennessee–Campbell Clinic; Head, Limb Deformity
Program, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital; Attending Orthopaedic
Surgeon, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Memphis ,
Tennessee
ROTATIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PROBLEMS OF THE EXTREMITIES
 
 
Lawrence A. Schachner, MD  
Interim Chairman and Professor, Department of
Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Division of Pediatric
Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine;
Staff Physician, Pediatric Dermatology, Jackson Memorial
Hospital, Miami, Florida
SUN PROTECTION IN THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Richard J. Schanler, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University , Bronx ; Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal
Medicine, Schneider Children’s Hospital at North Shore ,
North Shore University Hospital , Manhasset,
New York
RATIONALE FOR BREASTFEEDING AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES
 
 
William Seth Schechter, MD, MS, FAAP  
Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and
Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Director, Pediatric Pain Medicine Program,
Morgan Stanly Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
PEDIATRIC PAIN MANAGEMENT
 
 
Frances L. V. Scheffler, PhD 
 
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences Program,
Hunter College of the City University of New York , New
York, New York
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: LANGUAGE, SPEECH, AND VOICE DISORDERS
 
 
Mark S. Scher, MD 
 
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Department of
Pediatrics, Case School of Medicine; Division Chief, Pediatric
Neurology, and Director, Pediatric Sleep/Epilepsy and Fetal/
Neonatal Neurology Programs, Rainbow Babies and
Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland ,
Cleveland, Ohio
INFANTILE SPASMS: WEST SYNDROME
 
 
Charles L. Schleien, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology and Vice Chair
for Finance, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care
Medicine, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of
NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
RESPIRATORY FAILURE
 
 
Jay J. Schnitzer, MD, PhD  
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery,
Harvard Medical School ; Associate Visiting Surgeon,
Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston ,
Massachusetts
HERNIAS AND HYDROCELES
 
 
Andrew L. Schwaderer, MD  
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, The
Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health,
Columbus, Ohio
ACID–BASE DISORDERS
 
 
George J. Schwartz, MD  
Professor and Chief of Nephrology, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine
and Dentistry; Attending Physician, Department of
Pediatrics, Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong,
Rochester, New York
ACID–BASE DISORDERS
 
 
Jeffrey H. Schwartz, MD  
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Nemours Children’s
Clinic, Pensacola, Florida
HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS
 
 
Richard G. Schwartz, MS, PhD 
Presidential Professor, Ph.D. Program in Speech and
Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center of the City
University of New York, New York, New York
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: LANGUAGE, SPEECH, AND VOICE DISORDERS
 
 
Christina V. Scirica, MD  
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Clinical
Fellow, Pediatric Pulmonary Unit, MassGeneral Hospital for
Children; Research Fellow, Channing Laboratory, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
ASTHMA
 
 
Dorry L. Segev, MD  
Instructor in Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
PERITONITIS
 
 
Kavita S. Seth, DO 
Assistant Clinical Instructor and Fellow of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University School
of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
LISTERIOSIS; ASPERGILLOSIS
 
 
Suken A. Shah, MD 
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jefferson
Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Attending Pediatric
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children,
Wilmington, Delaware
THE HIP
 
 
Udayan K. Shah, MD, FAAP, FACS
Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck
Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ;
Attending Surgeon, Pediatric Otolaryngology,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
TUMORS AND POLYPS OF THE NOSE; FOREIGN BODIES IN THE EAR,
NOSE, AND PHARYNX
 
 
Bruce K. Shapiro, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine ; Vice President, Training, Kennedy
Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
MENTAL RETARDATION
 
 
Eugene D. Shapiro, MD 
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and
Investigative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine;
Attending Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital at Yale–New
Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
LYME DISEASE; ERHLICHIOSIS (ANAPLASMOSIS)
 
 
Bennett A. Shaywitz, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Chief,
Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Yale
University School of Medicine; Co-Director, Yale Center for
the Study of Learning, Reading , and Attention,
New Haven, Connecticut
DYSLEXIA (SPECIFIC READING DISABILITY)
 
 
Sally E. Shaywitz, MD 
Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine;
Co-Director, Yale Center for the Study of Learning,
Reading, and Attention, New Haven, Connecticut
DYSLEXIA (SPECIFIC READING DISABILITY)
 
 
Ziad M. Shehab, MD  
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Pathology,
University of Arizona School of Medicine; Attending
Physician, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology,
University Medical Center ; Attending Physician,
Department of Pediatrics, Tucson Medical Center , Tucson ,
Arizona
COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS
 
 
Henry R. Shinefield, MD 
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology, University
of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine ,
San Francisco, California
MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE
 
 
Mark G. Shrime, MD 
Resident, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck
Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York, New York
PEDIATRIC RHINITIS AND ACUTE AND CHRONIC SINUSITIS
 
 
Robert Sidbury, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine ;
Staff Physician, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical
Center, Seattle, Washington
DISORDERS OF PIGMENTATION; ACNE VULGARIS
 
 
Eric Jon Sigel, MD, CPH  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado
School of Medicine ; Clinic Director, Adolescent Medicine
Center, Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
CONDUCT DISORDER, AGGRESSION, VIOLENCE, AND DELINQUENCY IN YOUTH AND ADOLESCENTS
 
 
Nanette B. Silverberg, MD 
Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director,
Pediatric Dermatology, St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital
Center, New York, New York
WARTS AND MOLLUSCUM IN CHILDREN
 
 
Rebecca A. Simmons, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine ; Staff Physician, The Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HYPOGLYCEMIA IN THE NEWBORN INFANT
 
 
Eric Small, MD, FAAP  
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Orthopedics, and
Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine;
Medical Director, Family Sports Medicine and Nutrition,
New York, New York
THE SPORTS PHYSICAL
 
 
Holly D. Smith, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas
Medical College at Houston ; Staff Physician, Divisions of
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Memorial Hermann
Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital , Houston, Texas
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX
 
 
Roger F. Soll, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of
Medicine; Director, Neonatal Intensive Care, Department of
Children’s Services, Vermont Children’s Hospital of Fletcher
Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont
RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
 
 
F. Meridith Sonnett, MD 
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Acting Director, Division of
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Morgan Stanley Children’s
Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian, New York, New York
MAMMALIAN BITES AND BITE-RELATED INFECTIONS
 
 
Steven P. Sparagana, MD 
Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School ; Pediatric Neurologist, Texas
Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, Texas
TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX
 
 
Bonnie A. Spear, PhD, RD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine; Co-Director, Eating
Disorder Clinic, Department of Adolescent Medicine, The
Children’s Health Systems, Birmingham, Alabama
EATING DISORDERS AND OBESITY
 
 
Lawrence M. Stankovits, MD 
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UMDNJ–Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick , Staff
Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bristol-
Meyers-Squibb Hospital for Children, New Brunswick , and
Monmouth Medical Center , Long Branch, New Jersey
THE HIP
 
 
Barbara W. Stechenberg, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine,
Boston ; Vice Chairman and Director, Pediatric Infectious
Diseases, Baystate Medical Center Children’s Hospital,
Springfield, Massachusetts
DIPHTHERIA
 
 
Russell W. Steele, MD  
Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics,
Louisiana State University School of Medicine; Division
Head, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital and
University Hospital , New Orleans, Louisiana
CHOLERA
 
 
Ruth E. K. Stein, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University ; Attending, Children’s Hospital at
Montefiore, Bronx, New York
THE CHILD WITH A SERIOUS ONGOING CONDITION
 
 
Sarah L. Stein, MD  
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Section of
Dermatology, University of Chicago Pritzker School of
Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME
 
 
Peter G. Steinherz, MD  
Professor in Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University; Attending Pediatrician, Department of
Pediatrics, and Member, Memorial Hospital , Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ; Attending Pediatrician,
Department of Pediatrics, NewYork–Presbyterian
Hospital—New York Cornell Campus; New York, New York
ACUTE LEUKEMIA
 
 
John Stirling, MD 
Consultant Physician, Regional Child Abuse Consultation
Network, University of Washington Medical Center , Seattle ;
Staff Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Southwest
Washington Medical Center , Vancouver ; Chair, Department
of Pediatrics, The Vancouver Clinic, Vancouver, Washington
CHILD MALTREATMENT
 
 
Charles J. H. Stolar, MD 
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Staff Physician, Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–Presbyterian,
New York, New York
ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECTS AND DISORDERS OF THE UMBILICUS
 
 
William B. Strong, MD  
Emeritus L.H. Charbonnier Professor of Pediatrics, Medical
College of Georgia ; Chief, Section of Pediatric Cardiology,
and Director, Institution for the Prevention of
Human Disease and Accidents, Atlanta, Georgia
ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
 
 
Marsha S. Sturdevant, MD  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine; Medical Director,
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of
Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
EATING DISORDERS AND OBESITY
 
 
Steven Stylianos, MD 
Professor of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine; Chief, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Miami
Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida
BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
 
 
Maria Luisa Sulis, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
NEONATAL AND CHILDHOOD NEUTROPENIA
 
 
Gautham K. Suresh, MD, DM, MS  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical University of
South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston , South
Carolina
SCREENING IN THE NEWBORN NURSERY: HEARING LOSS, RISK OF SEVERE HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
 
 
David L. Suskind, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
School of Medicine ; Staff Pediatrician, Seattle Children’s
Hospital and Regional Medical Center , Seattle ,
Washington
VIRAL HEPATITIS
 
 
Britta M. Svoren, MD  
Harvard Medical School ; Fellow in Endocrinology, Pediatric
and Adolescent Unit, Genetics and Epidemiology Section,
Joslin Diabetes Center , and Department of Medicine,
Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
DIABETES MELLITUS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  
 
Ilona S. Szer, MD 
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of California ,
San Diego, School of Medicine ; Director, Pediatric
Rheumatology, Childrens Hospital and Health Center ,
San Diego, California
TREATMENT OF JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS
 
 
Nancy J. Tarbell, MD  
C.C. Wang Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical
School; Head, Pediatric Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts
General Hospital ; Director, Center for Faculty Development,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS
 
 
Jennifer Tender, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Staff
Pediatrician, Children’s National Medical Center ,
Washington, DC
IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
 
 
Andrew M. Tershakovec, MD  
Medical Director, U.S. Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.,
Horsham, Pennsylvania
NUTRITION SUPPORT OF THE VERY ILL PEDIATRIC PATIENT
 
 
Amy J. Theos, MD  
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric
Dermatology, Children’s Health System, Birmingham ,
Alabama
SCABIES AND PEDICULOSIS
 
 
George H. Thompson, MD 
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatrics,
Case School of Medicine; Director,
Pediatric Orthopaedics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s
Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
THE LIMPING CHILD
 
 
John F. Thompson, MD  
Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and
Nutrition, and Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Staff
Physician, Jackson Memorial Hospital and Baptist Hospital ,
Miami, Florida
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
 
 
Lawrence W. C. Tom, MD  
Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck
Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ;
Associate Surgeon, Division of Otolaryngology, The
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania
TUMORS AND POLYPS OF THE NOSE; FOREIGN BODIES IN THE EAR,
NOSE, AND PHARYNX
 
 
Helen M. Towers , LRCP&SI, MB , BCh  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
Medical Center College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Associate Medical Director, NICU, Department of Pediatrics,
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork–
Presbyterian, New York, New York
ANEMIA OF PREMATURITY AND WHEN TO TRANSFUSE; CIRCUMCISION
 
 
Martin H. Ulshen, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine;
Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Duke University Medical Center , Durham ,
North Carolina
INTESTINAL MALFORMATIONS
 
 
Reena Moza Vaid, MD 
Resident in Pediatrics, Texas Childrens Hospital , Houston ,
Texas
CHRONIC, NONHEREDITARY BULLOUS DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD
 
 
Jon A. Vanderhoof, MD  
Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University
of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, Nebraska ; Vice
President, Global Medical Affairs, Mead-Johnson
Nutritionals, Evansville, Indiana
HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE
 
 
Rene´ G. VanDeVoorde III, MD 
Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension,
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ,
Cincinnati, Ohio
HEMATURIA AND PROTEINURIA
 
 
V. Matti Vehaskari, MD, PhD  
Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Nephrology,
Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University School
of Medicine; Director of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s
Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
RENAL HYPOPLASIA AND DYSPLASIA
 
 
Charles P. Venditti, MD, PhD 
Director, Organic Acid Research Unit, National Human
Genome Research Institute, and Attending Physician, Mark
O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center , National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, Maryland
METABOLIC EMERGENCIES IN THE NEWBORN
 
 
Elliott Vichinsky, MD  
Medical Director, Department of Hematology/Oncology,
Children’s Hospital and Research Center at Oakland ,
Oakland, California
THALASSEMIA
 
 
Yskert von Kodolitsch, DrMed  
Professor of Cardiology, Universita¨res Herzzentrum gGmbH;
Klinik und Poliklinik fu¨ r Kardiologie/Angiologie,
Medizinische Klinik III, Universita¨tsklinikum Hamburg-
Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
MARFAN SYNDROME
 
 
Thomas J. Walsh, MD 
Senior Investigator and Head, Immunocompromised
Host Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda ,
Maryland
THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST
 
 
Juan N. Walterspiel, MD, FAAP  
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University
School of Medicine ; Attending Physician, Yale–New Haven
Children’s Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut ; Adjunct
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emory School of
Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
CELLULITIS
 
 
Valerie J. Waters, MD, MSc  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious
Diseases, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine;
Staff Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital
for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ANTIFUNGAL THERAPIES
 
 
Kristi L. Watterberg, MD  
Professor and Chief, Division of Neonatology, Department of
Pediatrics, University of New Mexico School of Medicine ,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA IN THE NEONATE
 
 
Wayne R. Waz, MD  
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University at
Buffalo SUNY School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences;
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Women and
Children’s Hospital of Buffalo , Buffalo, New York
RHABDOMYOLYSIS
 
 
Marc Weissbluth, MD  
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine;
Active Attending, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s
Memorial Hospital , Chicago, Illinois
COLIC
 
 
Steven L. Werlin, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin ; Staff
Physician, The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin , Milwaukee ,
Wisconsin
PANCREATIC DISEASES
 
 
Barry K. Wershil, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University ; Section Chief, Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Children’s Hospital at
Montefiore, Bronx, New York
ALLGERGIC GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
 
 
L. Joseph Wheat, MD  
Mira Vista Diagnostics & Mira Bella Technologies,
Indianapolis, Indiana
BLASTOMYCOSIS: RECOGNITION, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT
 
 
A. Clinton White, Jr., MD  
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor
College of Medicine ; Staff Physician, Division of Infectious
Diseases, Ben Taub General Hospital , Houston, Texas
CYSTICERCOSIS
 
 
Robert W. Wilmott, MD  
IMMUNO Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics,
Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Pediatrician-in-
Chief, Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, St. Louis ,
Missouri
BRONCHIETASIS
 
 
Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, MB, BCh  
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School ;
Senior Associate in Medicine (Endocrinology), Children’s
Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
GYNECOMASTIA
 
 
Susan H. Wootton, MD  
Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Division
of Infectious and Immunological Diseases, University of
British Columbia, and BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver ,
British Columbia, Canada
CYSTICERCOSIS
 
 
Albert C. Yan, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director,
Section of Dermatology, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ERYTHEMA NODOSUM
 
 
Linda S. Yancey, MD  
Infectious Disease Fellow, Department of Medicine, Baylor
College of Medicine , Houston, Texas
CYSTICERCOSIS
 
 
Yih-Ming Yang, MD  
Professor of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine; Attending
Physician, Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service,
Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA
 
 
Robert J. Yetman, MD 
Director, Division of Community and General Pediatrics,
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical
School at Houston, Houston, Texas
DIARRHEA
 
 
Torunn I. Yock, MD, MCH  
Harvard University ; Department of Radiation Oncology,
Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts
PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS
 
 
Rosemary J. Young, MS, RN  
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pediatric Gastroenterology
Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha ,
Nebraska
HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE
 
 
Thomas W. Young, MD  
Attending Pediatric Cardiologist, Ochsner Clinic
Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana
ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
 
 
Nader N. Youssef, MD 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and
Dentistry–New Jersey Medical School ; Staff, Center for
Pediatric Irritable Bowel and Motility Disorders, Goryeb
Children’s Hospital–Atlantic Health System, Morristown ,
New Jersey
ABDOMINAL PAIN: APPROACH TO A DIAGNOSIS
 
 
Ditza A. Zachor, MD  
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Medicine), Tel-Aviv
University School of Medicine; Director, Autism Center ,
Department of Pediatrics, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center ,
Tel-Aviv, Israel
AUTISM
 
 
Kenneth M. Zangwill, MD  
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA; Staff Pediatrician, Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center , Los Angeles, California
INFLUENZA VIRUS
 
 
Heather J. Zar, MD, PhD 
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology,
School of Child and Adolescent Health, University
of Cape Town Faculty of Medicine; Pediatric
Pulmonologist, Red Cross Children’s Hospital,
Cape Town, South Africa
PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI PNEUMONIA (PCP)
 
 
Christa M. H. Zehle, MD  
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Vermont College of Medicine; Clinical
Assistant Professor/Pediatric Hospitalist, Vermont
Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Heart Care,
Burlington, Vermont
FOREIGN BODIES IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
 
 
Mary L. Zupanc, MD 
Professor and Division Chief, Department of Neurology and
Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin ; Director, Pediatric
Epilepsy Center , Department of Neurology, Children’s
Hospital of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, Wisconsin
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE