John Patrick T. Co, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP

Editor in Chief, Pediatrics Open Science

Dr. John Co is a board-certified general pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Mass General Brigham. He completed medical school and pediatric residency at Stanford, a general pediatric academic development fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and a health services research fellowship at Harvard. His teaching, scholarly activity, and leadership interests span several areas, including medical education, quality and patient safety, health equity, and clinical informatics. He has practiced primary care pediatrics in academic medical center, community hospital/health center, and private practice settings. For over a decade, Dr. Co served as the Director of Pediatric Ambulatory Quality and Safety at MGH before becoming MGH’s inaugural Medical Director for Equity, working across departments around issues of access to care, patient experience, and bias/discrimination. As Vice President of Graduate Medical Education at Mass General Brigham, he is responsible for the strategy, operations, and innovation for one of the largest GME enterprises in the United States, which includes over 300 GME programs and 2500 trainees across academic medical centers, specialty, and community hospitals.  He was a member of the American Board of Pediatrics Foundation Board of Directors and the Expert Advisory Panel for the Children’s Hospital GME Quality Bonus System. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the State of Massachusetts’ Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety Education Advisory Group.

For the past 20 years, Dr. Co has served in editorial roles with several journals, including Ambulatory/Academic Pediatrics, Pediatrics (Quality Reports), and JAMA Pediatrics (Clinical Review and Education). He sees journals as having a critical role in translating new knowledge into policy and practices for improving outcomes for children, families, and society broadly, and open-access journals as a means by which to improve the speed at which that knowledge results in action and improvements worldwide.

Eve R. Colson, MD, MHPE, FAAP
Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Dean, Program Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Dr. Colson serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Program Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Utilizing her expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research, Dr. Colson has years of funding from NIH and other agencies to conduct studies aimed at understanding and preventing infant mortality and health inequality as well as disparities in education outcomes for trainees. Complementing her scholarship interests, Dr. Colson is a primary care pediatrician with special interest in well newborns, working alongside and teaching trainees about the care of newborns and their families.

Charles Grose, MD, FAAP
Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Dr. Grose is a professor of infectious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. He received his training at the University of Chicago Medical School, followed by a residency and fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. His research in virology has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. The main focus has been the pathogenesis of varicella-zoster virus and varicella vaccine infection, as well as varicella genomics. He has published over 300 articles and chapters as author or co-author. His Hirsch factor is 55.

Sophia Jan, MD, MSHP, FAAP
Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine of Hofstra/Northwell
Division Director, General Pediatrics of Cohen Children's Medical Center/Northwell Health
Hempstead, NY

Dr. Jan is a general pediatrician and general internist who is recognized for her expertise in healthcare delivery and long-term care for children and adults with chronic conditions, particularly intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her research, funded by federal and foundation grants, focuses on improving the health and well-being of young people with special healthcare needs, especially during their transition to adult care. Using diverse methodologies, including analysis of large datasets and qualitative studies, she identifies and addresses critical issues in healthcare delivery and outcomes for this vulnerable population. Dr. Jan leads the Division of General Pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center and directs the Health Homes Serving Children Program, a regional Medicaid care management program at Northwell Health.

Austin Meyer, MD, PhD, MS, MPH, MS, FAAP
Statistical Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor Scott & White - McLane Children's Hospital
Temple, TX

Dr. Meyer is a physician-scientist in internal medicine and pediatric hospital medicine at Baylor Scott & White Health and Baylor College of Medicine. He holds a PhD in biochemistry, with research modeling virus evolution, along with an MS in analytics, where he focused on time series forecasting. His research, funded by various sources, involves applications of machine learning and statistical modeling to diverse topics with special interest in infectious disease forecasting. He was also recently the infectious disease medical officer at the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH, FAAP
Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Director of Research
Division of Emergency Medicine
Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL

Dr. Michelson is a practicing pediatric emergency medicine physician. He is a federally funded researcher who studies how well the emergency care system performs in caring for ill and injured children. Dr. Michelson has chronicled how capacity has decreased in the US pediatric acute care system through the use of massive healthcare databases. His work informs the development of targeted interventions and policies to improve pediatric care.

Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, FAAP
Associate Editor, Pediatrics Open Science
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

Dr. Teach is a practicing pediatric emergency medicine physician, patient-focused clinical and translational investigator, and educator at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, where he is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. Long funded by the NIH and other federal and non-federal sources, his research has focused on improving the care and outcomes of under-resourced, urban, and largely Black and Hispanic children and adolescents with asthma marked by recurrent exacerbations. He recently stepped down as Chair of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Pediatric Academic Affairs at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC.