Pediatric Care Online Editorial Board

Dr Bernstein is a Professor of Pediatrics at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. He taps into his extensive 40–year experience as a general pediatrician in private practice, the National Health Service Corps, and as Chief of General Academic Pediatrics at urban, suburban, and rural children’s hospitals to promote the health and well-being of children, their families, and their communities. His private, community-based primary care (generalist) experiences in combination with academic leadership responsibilities have provided him with a value-added, translational science perspective, unique from many others in academia. This tacit knowledge enables him to fulfil a lifelong passion of communicating, educating, and translating science into clinical settings, educational venues, policymaking, and media interactions to advance the health of children.

Dr Bernstein is a voting member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) and a former voting member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). He serves as a consultant on the ACIP COVID-19, Influenza, and the Combined Adult and Pediatric Immunization Schedules workgroups. He also is an ex-officio member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee) and was Associate Editor of the AAP Red Book Online for 13 years. In addition, he was founding Editor in Chief of PediaLink, the AAP’s online home for lifelong learning, and past Chair of the interdisciplinary Bright Futures Health Promotion Workgroup, which created a distinctive health promotion curriculum, videos, and a companion educational website (www.pediatricsinpractice.org).

Dr Bernstein has been Editor of the Office Pediatrics Series in Current Opinion in Pediatrics since 1995 (30 years) and was Senior Editor of Pediatrics on the public website of Harvard Medical School’s Health Publications Division for 17 years. He regularly shares his knowledge and expertise by educating the public, writing for health information websites and often participating in media interviews on a variety of pediatric health care issues including immunizations, diagnosis and treatment of common childhood infectious diseases and conditions, and practical information for parents, teachers, and caregivers.

Gurinder Kumar, MBBS, MD, FAAP
Deputy Editor

Dr Kumar is an associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University and has been working at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, since July 2021.

Dr Kumar did his pediatric residency at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India, in 2006; worked clinically for several years; then completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology in 2013 at St John’s Medical College, Bangalore. He worked at a tertiary care academic center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the capacity of pediatric nephrologist for 5 years before moving to the United States. He completed his pediatric residency at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, and thereafter joined MetroHealth in July 2021 as pediatric hospitalist. He is board certified in pediatrics and holds a fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the United Kingdom. He is a certified lactation consultant and has received certification in medical quality. He is an Neonatal Resuscitation Program® and Pediatric Advanced Life Support instructor.

Dr Kumar is active in multiple national and international medical societies. He has authored and coauthored multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and case reports. He served on the editorial board of 2 journals in the past, as ad hoc manuscript reviewer for multiple journals, and as abstract reviewer for international conferences. He is active in multiple quality improvement projects in the Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr Kumar is actively involved in resident education and teaching activities as well as resident teaching on diversity, inclusion, and equality.

Anisha Bhatia, MD, FAAP
Associate Editor, Neonatology

Dr Bhatia is a neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center and practices in the community at Rush Copley Medical Center. Dr Bhatia is the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists Executive Council. She currently serves as colead of the Networking and Communication Team for AAP Women in Neonatology and is a member of the Staffing and Workload Appropriate for Neonatologists Taskforce. She is also a member of the Improving Neonatologist Staffing Workgroup, which focuses on promoting equitable working conditions for neonatologists. In addition to her clinical and leadership roles, Dr Bhatia is a past member of the NeoReviews Editorial Board. Her interests include medical education, career mentorship, and neonatal workforce advocacy.

Danielle Daniels, MD, FAAP
Associate Editor, General Pediatrics

Dr Daniels is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University and assistant program director for the fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases. She is actively involved in medical education and clinical research. Dr Daniels has helped create, review, and disseminate digital content that promotes evidence-based medical care and vaccine education among her institution and the Central New York community. She is particularly interested in leveraging technology to enhance medical education and optimize research efforts.

Dr Daniels attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College, followed by pediatric residency and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at SUNY Upstate Medical University. During her training, she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Andrea Dean, MD, FAAP
Associate Editor, Mental Health

Dr Dean is a pediatric hospitalist at Texas Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She is an experienced educator, with a focus on residency education and faculty development

Dr Dean is most passionate about teaching nuances in the clinical care of hospitalized children, especially in her areas of clinical expertise such as behavioral health and family-centered care.

Dr Hill is chair of the Council on Communications and Media, adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, and author of Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He also serves as associate editor of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 and associate editor of patient education for Pediatric Care Online. In addition, he is coauthoring a book on parenting through divorce, separation, and remarriage for the AAP.

Dr Hill served on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Pediatric Society from 2010 to 2018, helping shepherd the chapter through a major reorganization, and he remains on the chapter public policy and membership committees.

Dr Hill practices pediatrics at Goldsboro Pediatrics in North Carolina. He graduated from Rice University and the University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine, where he served as student body president. He then trained in internal Medicine and pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine. Dr Hill is particularly interested in quality improvement, best practices, and medical education.

 

Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP
Associate Editor, General Pediatrics

Dr Kuo is a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is chief of medicine-pediatrics and director of preventive medicine at UCLA.

Dr Kuo has been committed to improving developmental services for children and adults with disabilities. She is the director of the national Health Care Transitions Research Network for youths and young adults who have autism as well as director of the University of California Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities, both funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of early childhood health, developmental services, health disparities, and medical education. She has edited 2 books: Child Health: a Population Perspective by Oxford University Press in 2015 and Care of Adults with Chronic Childhood Conditions: A Practical Guide by Springer in 2016.

Dr Kuo served on the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Community Pediatrics Training Initiative from 2005 to 2008 and the Council on Community Pediatrics (COCP) from 2009 to 2015 and was the policy chair for those last 3 years. During her time on the COCP, she coauthored 10 policy statements for the AAP related to social determinants of child health. She is currently president of AAP California Chapter 2 (which includes Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties).

Dr Kuo received a bachelor of arts in biology from Harvard University, her doctorate of medicine and doctorate in philosophy in educational psychology from UCLA, and master of business education from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She completed her combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a NRSA Primary Care and Health Services Research fellowship at UCLA.

 

Lucy Lee, MD, FAAP
Associate Editor, Innovation & Tools

Dr Lee, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist, Associate Medical Director of Leadership Development, and Interim co-Medical Director of Communication with the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr Lee completed medical school at Stanford University and spent the first decade of her clinical career at Stanford, as a pediatric resident and chief resident, then neonatal hospitalist, associate director of coaching and faculty coach in the Stanford pediatrics residency program, and associate clerkship director for the core pediatrics rotation. As a community hospitalist who practices within an academic medical center, she continues to enjoy staying involved in teaching medical students and residents. 

Dr Lee’s interest in online medical education began during her residency, when she revamped her program website from primarily being a method of sending text pages to being a robust repository of resident resources that continues to expand and grow. She does not identify as someone who is overly immersed in technology but rather seeks to use technology efficiently and effectively, especially given the overabundance of available information online. Dr Lee is excited to contribute to the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Care Online as Associate Editor of Innovations & Tools. 

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We thank the following past members of the Pediatric Care Online Editorial Board for their service: Henry Adam, MD, FAAP; Rebecca Baum, MD, FAAP; Lee Ann Savio Beers, MD, FAAP; Sara Bode, MD, FAAP; Jatinder Bhatia, MD, FAAP; Kathleen Cain, MD, FAAP; Deborah Campbell, MD, FAAP; Donna D'Alessandro, MD, FAAP; Thomas DeWitt, MD; Jane Meschan Foy, MD, FAAP; Alexander Holston, MD, FAAP; Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP; Athra Kaviani, MD, FAAP; Kelly Kelleher, MD, MPH, FAAP; Michael Leu, MD, MS, MHS, FAAP; Thomas McInerny, MD, FAAP; Allison Pollock, MD, FAAP; Patrick Reeves, MD, Resident Member; S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMI; Michael Severson, MD, FAAP; Samir Shah, MD, MCSE, FAAP; Mark Wolraich, MD, FAAP; and Beverly Wood, MD, MDEd, PhD, FAAP.