Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Pediatrics was launched in 1989. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of pediatrics is divided into 18 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. In addition to this, Henry H. Bernstein also invites a prominent authority in the field of Office Pediatrics to write on the subject for each issue. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Jean KligJean KligDr Klig was born in New York City, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College, USA, with an AB in political science in 1983. She earned her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1988, and completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, USA. Following residency, she completed her fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's Hospital Oakland, USA. Dr Klig then joined the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Pediatric Emergency Department of the Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, from its opening in 1993 until 2004. Dr Klig now resides in the Boston area and is the Associate Chief of Pediatric Emergency Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, USA. Her interests include simulation-based medical education and clinical research. Clifford W. BogueClifford W. BogueClifford W. Bogue, MD, a pediatric critical care specialist, is Professor and Interim Chair of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, USA, where he has been on the faculty since 1993. In 2014, he was named the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, where he provides strategic and operational leadership for the Children's Hospital's clinical delivery systems. Dr Bogue received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia (UVA), USA. He was a Resident and Chief Resident in pediatrics at Vanderbilt University before completing a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Yale. During his career at Yale, Dr Bogue has held a number of medical school and hospital leadership positions, including Director of Pediatric Critical Care Transport, Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship, Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Associate Chair for Strategic Planning. From 2010 to 2012 he served as Interim Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief of Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and from 2012 to 2015 served as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics. Dr Bogue has been actively involved in training students, residents and fellows. He is Director of Bedside to Bench: Seminars in Pediatrics, a course for first-year medical students, serves on the MD/PhD Admissions Committee, and was PI for an NIH T32 training program in cardiopulmonary development. He currently serves as training director for the Yale Child Health Research Center, a K12 program funded by the NICHD and now in its 25th year of consecutive funding. He has served on several NIH peer review panels and is currently a member of the Child Health Research Scientific Review Committee of the Charles H. Hood Foundation and Co-Chair of the American Heart Association Genetics/Epigenetics peer review committee. In 2014, Dr Bogue was Chair of the planning committee for the Pediatric Clinical Trials Network Stakeholders’ Forum, a forum convened by the American Academy of Pediatrics to initiate the process of developing a global pediatric clinical trials network. Dr Bogue's academic career at Yale also included establishing and directing an NIH-funded research program in the developmental biology of the lung, liver and cardiovascular system for over 20 years. During that time, his laboratory made important contributions to the genetic pathways involved in embryonic organ development, including the identification of genetic pathways critical to formation of the liver and biliary system as well as the cardiovascular system. Dr Bogue has served on a number of national and international boards in academic pediatrics including the Council of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Federation of Pediatric Organizations’ Child Health Research and Training Workgroup, and the Program Committee of the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Meeting. He is currently a Trustee and Secretary-Treasurer of the International Pediatric Research Foundation (which is responsible for publishing the journal Pediatric Research), Chair of the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Program Committee, Chair of the AAP Committee on Pediatric Research, and a Member of the Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Pediatrics. He has been named annually to Best Doctors in America since 2004 and was awarded both the Mae Gailani Young Investigator and Norman J Siegel Faculty Awards at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr Bogue lives in Guilford, CT with his wife Meg, a fellow graduate of UVA. His daughter, Katherine, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and his son, Russell, is a graduate of UVA and is currently a graduate student at the University of Oxford reading for an MPhil in Political Theory. David N. CornfieldDavid N. CornfieldDavid N. Cornfield, MD, was appointed the first holder of the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, in December 2005. He is Director of the Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology at Stanford, and Chief of the Divisions of Pediatric Pulmonary, Asthma, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, USA. Dr Cornfield earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, USA, and completed his residency at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, where he was Pediatric House Officer. He later completed his fellowship in pediatric pulmonology and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Denver Children's Hospital and National Jewish Hospital, Denver, USA. Previously, Dr Cornfield served as Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and Surgery at the University of Minnesota, and Director of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Interim Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, USA. Dr Cornfield's basic science research focuses on the development of blood vessels in the lungs and the molecular mechanisms responsible for sensing changes in oxygen tension. His research has provided insight into the cellular and subcellular mechanisms that determine pulmonary vascular tone and lung development. His laboratory has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for the past 15 years. His clinical research has focused on methods to treat acute lung injury in infants and children. Dr Cornfield is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Pediatric Society, American Thoracic Society, and American Academy of Pediatrics, and is Past President of the Society for Pediatric Research. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology, Pediatrics, and Pulmonary Circulation. He served as a permanent member of study sections of the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes, and the American Heart Association, and as a member of both the AAP committee on pediatric education, and the Federation of Pediatric Organizations task force on training and scholarship. Dr Cornfield is the recipient of numerous professional honors including the Daniel C. Darrow Award from Children's Mercy Hospital, the Richard B. Rowe Award for outstanding achievements in perinatal cardiology from the Society for Pediatric Research, the Established-Investigator and Clinician-Scientist Awards from the American Heart Association, and the Clinician of the Year Award from the University of Minnesota Medical School. On multiple occasions, he has been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Educator. Brad W. WarnerBrad W. WarnerDr Brad W. Warner is currently the Jessie L. Ternberg, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and the Surgeon-in-Chief at the St. Louis Children's Hospital, USA. Dr Warner is a native of St. Louis and completed college and medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine six-year medical program. In 1982, he moved to the University of Cincinnati whereby he completed a general surgery residency, a two-year research fellowship, and a fellowship in pediatric surgery. He stayed on faculty at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he rose in the ranks to full professor. He has an NIH funded basic science laboratory and has been Program Director for the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship in Cincinnati, as well as Director of Surgical Research. Dr Warner is Past President of the Society of University Surgeons and Past Chairperson of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr Warner is currently on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. Dr Warner came to St. Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University in 2007 where he maintains an active laboratory staffed with multiple surgical residents, PhDs, and pre- and postdoctoral students. Dr Warner's research and clinical interests include intestinal adaptation, short gut syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and advanced gastrointestinal surgery. Henry H. BernsteinHenry H. BernsteinDr Bernstein is a Professor of Pediatrics at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine in New York, USA. He taps into his extensive 32-year experience as a general pediatrician in private practice and in academia at urban, suburban, and rural children's hospitals to promote the health and wellbeing of children, their families, and their communities. His private, community-based primary care (generalist) experiences in combination with academic experiences have provided him with a value-added, translational science perspective, unique from many others in academia. This tacit knowledge enables him to fulfill a lifelong passion of communicating, educating, and translating science into clinical settings, educational venues, policy-making, and media interactions to advance the health of children. Research is consistently woven into the fabric of Dr Bernstein's clinical practice, which has served as a ‘laboratory’ for his active studies. His research and quality improvement initiatives focus on issues important to Academic General Pediatrics and community-based practice, including immunizations, postpartum newborn discharge, childhood obesity, breastfeeding, health promotion, preventive health screening in primary care, technology, and medical education. His commitment, innovative spirit, and enthusiasm also encompass many facets of medical education along the continuum, from training and mentoring future physicians to fostering lifelong learning, to supporting the continuous professional development of practicing pediatricians. Hank is an ex-officio member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee), Associate Editor of Red Book Online (www.aapredbook.org), and AAP liaison to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Influenza Workgroup, spearheading both seasonal and pandemic influenza preparedness and policy for children. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of PediaLink (www.pedialink.org), the AAP's online home for lifelong learning and chair of the interdisciplinary Bright Futures Health Promotion Workgroup, which has created a distinctive health promotion curriculum, videos, and a companion educational website (www.pediatricsinpractice.org). He regularly shares his knowledge and expertise by educating the public, writing for health information websites, and participating in media interviews on a variety of pediatric health care issues including immunization, diagnosis and treatment of common childhood infectious diseases and illnesses, and practical information for parents, teachers and caregivers. In the spirit of lifelong learning, Hank earned a Masters in Healthcare Management (MHCM) at Harvard School of Public Health in 2013. He actively maintains his certification by the American Board of Pediatrics. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, after earning his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine, USA. Hank and his wife, Sophie, have been married for 36 years and are extremely proud of their 31-year-old daughter, Lauren, and 26-year-old son, David.