Editorial Advisory Board Chair
Thomas K. McInerny, MD, FAAP is associate chair for clinical affairs and professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center/Golisano Childrens Hospital, where he works closely with the full-time faculty and the primary care pediatricians in the Rochester region. Dr McInerny is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical School, and Harvard Medical School. His pediatric residency training was at Cincinnati and Boston Childrens hospitals. He has more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of a chapter on primary care for children with special health care needs in Optimizing Care for Young Children with Special Health Care Needs. He has had more than 35 years' experience as a primary care pediatrician, was also a chief medical officer for a large IPA in Rochester for 3 years, and is a Certified Physician Executive and Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr McInerny is the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Child Health Financing and is also a member of the following AAP committees: Task Force on Immunization, Task Force on Mental Health, and Steering Committee on Quality Improvement Management. He is the AAP representative to the American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance of Certification Subcommittee. He also served as president of Chapter I, District II (Upstate NY) and treasurer of District II. He has also been chair of the Annual Chapter Forum and Pediatric Research in the Office Setting Steering committees.

Dr McInerny's areas of expertise are in caring for children with chronic illness, childrens mental health, the financing of childrens health care, and quality improvement.

Dr Adam is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM)-Childrens Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, NY. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College and studying as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow at Yale University, he graduated from the State University of NY-Upstate Medical Center in 1979, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. Following 3 years of pediatric residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, he was a Fellow in general & behavioral pediatrics and then joined the faculty at AECOM. His clinical work has focused on children with complex chronic illnesses, especially pediatric AIDS-- he has directed the Pediatric Outreach Program (1984-1986), the AIDS Day Care Center (1987-1990), and the Pediatric AIDS Primary Care Program (1990-1994), all at Jacobi Medical Center. As an educator, Dr Adam directed the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Montefiore Medical Center (1994-2002), has received the Lewis Fraad Teaching Award, and been elected to the Leo Davidoff Teaching Society. Dr Adam is the editor of the In-Brief section of Pediatrics in Review, and he is an associate editor of the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care.

Dr. Cain is a pediatrician in private practice in Topeka, KS. She is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, IL, and completed her pediatric residency training at Children’s Memorial Medical Center of Northwestern University and University of Kansas School of Medicine at Wichita. In addition to being a member of the Pediatric Care Online Editorial Advisory Board, Dr. Cain also serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Private Payer Advocacy Advisory Committee and is the AAP co-chair for the Workgroup on Public/Private Costs of Immunizing. She has written several articles on practice management for AAP News and has been a featured speaker at practice management sessions at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

Dr Campbell is director of the Division of Neonatology at the Childrens Hospital at Montefiore, and professor of clinical pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She conducts the Low birth weight infant Evaluation and Assessment Program (LEAP). Her research activities have focused on regionalization of perinatal care and health services delivery, psychosocial support interventions for mothers of premature babies, perinatal ethics and collaborative decision-making, outcomes for very low birth weight infants, and newborn hearing screening.

Dr Campbell plays an active role in perinatal activities at the city, state and national levels. She is immediate-past president of the New York State Association of Regional Perinatal Programs and Networks and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Perinatal Pediatrics, and was active on the NYC Local Early Intervention Coordinating Council from its inception through 2006. Dr Campbell is a member of the Greater New York March of Dimes Health Professionals Advisory Board, Grants Committee, the National March of Dimes Grants Committee, Bioethics Committee and NICU Family Support Project Advisory Group. Dr Campbell also serves as a member of the NYS Safe Motherhood Initiative Maternal Mortality Review Conference, the NYC and Bronx Infant Mortality Review Committees and the Bronx Perinatal Forum. She has worked with the NYS Department of Health and the AAP on several initiatives: (1) NYS DOH initiative on perinatal regionalization, implementation of a statewide perinatal data system and quality of care management, (2) Implementation of the state's universal newborn hearing screening program, and (3) NYS Early Intervention Program IDEA General Supervision Enhancement Grant.

Dr Campbell was an associate editor, and contributor, to Transcultural Aspects of Perinatal Care: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Professionals, a 2004 joint publication of the AAP and the National Perinatal Association. Dr Campbell is also a member on the AAP Taskforce on Implementation of Newborn Hearing Screening and the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program and the Bright Futures Infancy Expert Panel. She is an associate editor for the upcoming AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, 1st edition, the official Pediatrics textbook of the AAP, and Pediatric Care Online™. In 2007, Dr Campbell is a member of two quality of care collaboratives, the Greater New York Hospital Association Perinatal Safety Collaborative Advisory Group and the National Quality Forum Perinatal Collaborative, and has been appointed to the New Palliative Care Education and Training Council, an expert panel on palliative care that will develop guidance and advise the Commissioner of Health for the New York State Department of Health on best practices in pain management and end-of-life care.

Jane Meschan Foy, MD is Professor of Pediatrics and Coordinator of the Integrated Primary Care Mental Health (MH) Program for the Northwest Area Health Education Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. >From 1999-2003 she chaired the Task Force on MH for the NC Chapter of the AAP, helping to negotiate Medicaid policies that pay primary care physicians for the MH care they provide and facilitate their access to MH specialists. She has since been part of multiple NC initiatives to integrate MH care into primary care settings. From 2004-2010 she has chaired the AAP Task Force on MH.

Dr Holston is a fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He completed pediatric residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. During residency, Dr Holston served as the resident liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Administration and Practice Management, representing physicians-in-training in the development of Practice Management Online. He also served as the District I resident coordinator. Current research includes the role of angiogenic factors in preeclampsia and neonatal origins of disease.

Dr Kamat received his MD and PhD from the University of Bombay, India and then completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric immunology and bone marrow transplant at the University of Minnesota. He also served as the program director for the combined Medicine/Pediatrics program at the University of Minnesota. Currently, he is a professor at the Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics at the Childrens Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University. He is also the vice chair of education, director of the Institute of Medical Education, and program director for the International Health Pathway and Pediatric Global Health Certificate program. He is honored with many teaching awards by medical students and residents at the University of Minnesota, at West Virginia University, and at the Childrens Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University. He practices general pediatrics, clinical immunology and international health.

Dr Kamat is the lead editor of the Point-of-Care Quick Reference on Pediatric Care Online™. Dr Kamat is appointed editor of the Index of Suspicion Section of Pediatrics in Review from July 2008, and he is an associate editor of the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care.

Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Psychiatry
Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, and Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
The Ohio State University

Vice President for Health Services Research
Director, Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice
The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital

Dr Kelleher's research interests focus on accessibility, effectiveness, and quality of health care services for children and their families, especially those affected by mental disorders, substance abuse, or violence. In particular, Dr Kelleher studies technology, organization, and financing of services and systems as they change outcomes.

Dr Leu is the Medical Director for Clinical Effectiveness at Seattle Children's.  A Seattle native, he trained in computer science and worked in industry for several years prior to attending medical school. He received his MD with thesis honors from the University of Washington, completed pediatric residency training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University. Dr. Leu is interested in using technology to improve the practice of pediatrics in the ambulatory and hospital care settings. He is currently the applications chair for the AAP Council on Clinical Information Technology.

Dr Wood is a professor of radiology and pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC) and a clinical professor of radiology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She is chair of the Committee on Continuing Medical Education (CME), an Editorial Board member of PediaLink, and a liaison to the Committee on Pediatric Education and the National Conference & Exhibition (NCE) Planning Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She serves on the Executive Committee of the NCE planning group. Dr Wood is a member of the Editorial Board of Pediatric Care Online™ and is developing a section of PediaLink devoted to principles of teaching for residents. Dr Wood teaches in faculty development at USC and Loma Linda and also teaches a course on residents as teachers as well as several courses on teaching and assessing the competencies in the Master's of Medical Education at USC. She is a member of multiple committees of education at radiology specialty societies and is the chair of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology Committee on Education. She is a surveyor for the Accreditation Council on CME. Her MS is in medical education and her PhD is in education (psychology and technology).