
Dr. Stevenson is Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics, senior associate dean for maternal and child health, co-director of the Stanford Child Health Research Institute, and director of Charles B. & Ann L. Johnson Center for Pregnancy & Newborn Services at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine. His research has focused on neonatal jaundice and heme oxygenase biology that has influenced change in neonatal intensive care. He is a member of AAP Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Dr. ArchuletaBob A. Archuleta, M.D., FAAP, of Midlothian, Va., was appointed to the National Quality Forum’s Palliative and End-of-Life Care Standing Committee for the End-of-Life Endorsement Maintenance Project. The project’s goals are to identify and endorse performance measures for accountability and quality improvement that address palliative and end-of-life care.
Dr. Archuleta is medical director and founder of Noah’s Children Hospice and Palliative Care Program. He has practiced primary care in Richmond for 37 years.

Dr. Kaskel is professor and vice chair of pediatrics and director of pediatric nephrology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and director of life course research for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
An ad hoc member on the International Pediatric Nephrology Association Council and the Food and Drug Administration Pediatric Advisory Committee, he is president of the 15th Scientific Congress of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. He also is a member of the AAP Section on Pediatric Nephrology Executive Committee and Section on Senior Members.
Dr. Avner is emeritus professor of pediatrics and physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and attending physician and director of Multidisciplinary Program for Childhood Polycystic Kidney Disease in the Division of Nephrology at the Children’s Hospital Health System of Wisconsin.

Mr. Laerdal is executive chairman of Laerdal Medical. Laerdal Global Health, the nonprofit part of Laerdal Medical, provides affordable, culturally sensitive products to help save lives in low-resource settings.

Most recently, Dr. Stanton served as vice dean for research at Wayne State University School of Medicine, pediatrician-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at West Virginia University.
She also was a health consultant to the World Bank and International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research. She is past president of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs.

A pediatric hematologist-oncologist, Dr. Watts spent the past 25 years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was residency program director, medical staff president and service line leader of the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders. He is a member of the AAP Section on Hematology/Oncology.