AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS - Key Persons

Lee Savio Beers, MD, is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) after serving her term as the 2021 AAP president. Dr Beers is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Medical Director for Community Health and Advocacy at Children's National Hospital. She is the Founding Director of the DC Mental Health Access in Pediatrics program and Co-Director of the Early Childhood Innovation Network. She also oversees the Child Health Advocacy Institute's Community Mental Health CORE, a public-private coalition that serves as a catalyst to elevate the standard of mental health care for every young person in Washington DC. She earned her Medical Degree from Emory University School of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth VA. Prior to joining Children's National, she was a general pediatrician at the Naval Hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She received the Academic Pediatric Association 2019 Public Policy and Advocacy Award. She serves in a wide variety of leadership and advisory positions within the Washington DC community. Her clinical and research interests include adolescent pregnancy and parenting, the integration of mental health and pediatric primary care, the impact of adversity and stress on child well-being and advocacy education. She lives in Washington DC with her husband Nathaniel, and two children.

Lia Gaggino

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Member of the Executive Committee

Linda Ann Waggoner-Fountain

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Member of the Committee

Linda Donnel Parsi

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Member of Committee

Lisa Abuogi

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Member of Committee

Lisa Chamberlain

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Member of Committee

Lisa Grisham

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Liaison
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Lisa Michele Kafer

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Member of Committee

Liwei L. HUA

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Liaison
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Lois Kaye Lee

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Member of Committee

Lynn Olson

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Vice President, Research

Madeline Joseph

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Member of the Executive Committee

Mandy S. Coles

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Liaison
Member of the Committee

Marcus C Allen

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Staff Member

Margaret 'Meg' Fisher

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Member of the Executive Committee

Margaret Parker

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Member of Committee

Margie C. Andreae

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Member of Committee

Maria Rahmandar

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Member of Committee

Marilyn J. Bull

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Member of the Committee

Marirose Russo

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Vice President, Marketing and Sales

Mark Del Monte - CEO, EVP

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CEO
Executive Vice President
Member of the Executive Committee

Mark Douglas Messenger

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Member of Committee

Mark Grimes

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Vice President, Publishing

Mark Hudak

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Member of Committee

Mark Joseph

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Member of Committee

Mark R. Corkins

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Chairman / Memphis, TN
Chairman of Committee

Mark X. Cicero

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Member of the Liaison

Martha C. Middlemist

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Member of the Executive Committee

Mary Lou White

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Chief Product and Services Officer / Senior Vice President, Membership, Marketing, and Publishing

Mary T. Caserta

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Member of Committee

Maryellen Gusic

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Member of the Committee

Matthew M Laughon

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Member of Committee

Megana Dwarakanath

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Member of Committee

Melinda A. Williams-Willingham

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Chairman / Clarkston, GA
Chairman of the Committee

Melissa Mauro-Small

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Member of Committee

Michael Colburn

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Member of Committee

Michael Narvey

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Liaison
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Michael S. Leonard

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Member of Committee
Representative, the Joint Commission / Rochester, NY

Michelle D. Fiscus

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Member of the Executive Committee

Miguel L. Knochel

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Member of Committee

Mike Chen

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Member of Committee

Mitchell S Cairo

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Member of Committee

Moira Szilagyi - President

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Member of the Executive Committee
President
Pediatrician

Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP, began her one-year term as President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Jan. 1, 2021. Dr. Szilagyi is a primary care pediatrician, educator, and Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA (since 2014) where she is Division Chief of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics and Peter Shapiro Term Chair for the Promotion of Child Developmental and Behavioral Health. She completed her MD, PhD, and pediatric residency at the University of Rochester. During her 30 years in Rochester, she developed a community-based, integrated-care medical home for children in foster care, worked in a suburban private practice, precepted residents in continuity clinic, created and led a regional child abuse program, conducted research highlighting vulnerable children, and mentored trainees. Dr. Szilagyi has worked closely with the AAP for 3 decades. In the 1990s, she led a multi-disciplinary team at AAP-District-II NYS that developed the first health care standards for children in foster care- Fostering Health (now the national standards). She has served in leadership roles on the Committee on Early Childhood, Task Force on Foster Care, and Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship Care. She has authored several AAP policy statements, clinical and technical reports and speaks widely about child welfare, vulnerable children, and childhood trauma and resilience. A dedicated advocate, Dr. Szilagyi works closely with the AAP's Washington Office on legislation related to equity, diversity and the care of vulnerable children. She collaborates with mental health and child welfare to integrate evidence-based interventions into pediatric care. She recently led a federally funded, multi-site project with the AAP and University of Massachusetts Medical School to educate pediatricians about trauma- and resilience-informed care and relational health.