Ask the Experts: Pediatrics
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Expert Panel
- David M. Banks, MD, Staff Physician, Emergency Department, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Scottish Rite Campus, Atlanta, Georgia
- William Cassidy, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Earl K. Long Medical Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
Sandor Feldman, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi- Anne A. Gershon, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; Director, Clinical Department of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
Samuel L. Katz, MD, W.C. Davison Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Clinical Department of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina- Andrew E. Mulberg, MD, FAAP, Director, Global Drug Development, Clinical Leader, Drug Evaluation, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Titusville, New Jersey
- Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, Director, Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Alan M. Schindler, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- David L. Schutzman, MD, Chief, Division of Neonatology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Robert W. Steele, MD, Staff, Department of Pediatrics, St. John's Children's Hospital, Springfield, Missouri
- Russell Steele, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Pediatrics at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Division Head, Clinical Department of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Daniel S. Wechsler, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor