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About the Department

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Mission Statement

Currently, the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics includes 142 members who hold primary appointments and 54 members who hold consulting and/or adjunct appointments. As a whole, the faculty is among the most ethnically diverse in the Medical School.

The activities of the faculty are organized around the Department’s core missions of patient care, research, and education. The physician faculty offer a full spectrum of clinical services to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The Department has an extensive research portfolio and currently ranks among the top twenty pediatric departments in America as defined by total dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The Department also offers a variety of educational opportunities directed at medical students, residents, fellows, and other allied health professionals.

Key Personnel in the Department of Pediatrics

Name	Title
Joseph W. St. Geme, III, MD	Chair
Kay L. Marshall, MBA	Chief Administrator
Thomas R. Kinney, MD	Associate Chair Director, Office of Information Technology
Kathleen A. McGann, MD	Vice Chair of Pediatric Education
Karen Frush, BSN, MD	Vice Chair of Strategic Initiatives
Robert Drucker, MD	Director, Undergraduate Medical Education
Betty Staples, MD	Director, Pediatric Residency Training
Suzanne K. Woods, MD	Director, Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Training
Susan Glenn	Director, Development Office
Wesley Burks, MD	Chief, Allergy-Immunology
Joanne Kurtzberg, MD	Chief, Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Richard D'Alli, MD	Chief, Child Development and Behavioral Health
John Rhodes, MD	Chief, Clinical Cardiology
Jennifer Li, MD	Chief, Cardiovascular Research
Ira Cheifetz, MD	Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Michael Freemark, MD	Chief, Endocrinology
Martin Ulshen, MD	Chief, Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Daniel Wechsler, MD, PhD	Chief, Hematology-Oncology
W. Clay Bordley, MD	Chief, Hospital and Emergency Medicine
Coleen Cunningham, MD	Chief, Infectious Diseases
Priya Kishnani, MD	Chief, Medical Genetics
Ronald N. Goldberg, MD	Chief, Neonatology Director, Neonatal Perinatal Research Institute
John Foreman, MD	Chief, Nephrology
Mohamad A. Mikati, MD	Chief, Neurology
Dennis A. Clements, MD, PhD	Chief, Primary Care Pediatrics
Judith A. Voynow, MD	Chief, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
Daniel Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH	Chief, Quantitative Sciences
Laura Schanberg, MD Egla Rabinovich, MD	Co-Chiefs, Rheumatology