AMSPDC Committees
Clinical Care Committee
The AMSPDC Clinical Care Committee strives to share best practices and approaches to new challenges in an effort to promote access to high quality care for all children. With these goals in mind, the committee focused its attention on the unprecedented challenges created by COVID-19. Most centers felt under-prepared to meet the clinical strains of this pandemic. We have created a survey instrument to gather data on the range of responses by member institutions. This will help create a repository of information that could be very helpful in coordinating a response when faced with another challenge like this.
Division Director Academy Committee
The program is designed to provide Division Directors access to resources, information, networking, and tools to lead and manage all aspects of division activities. Our faculty of chairs represent a diverse set of programs in terms of size, structure, location, and more. Attendees will come away from this program with the tools and knowledge to work more collaboratively and successfully with their department chairs, other division directors, and faculty so they can lead a division that enhances the overall success of the department.
Education Committee
If you have an interest in medical education, The AMSPDC Education Committee is for you! The Education Committee provides you with an opportunity to discuss and disseminate high-quality innovative models of education within our Departments and across the educational continuum. Our committee represents AMSPDC in a number of national initiatives that impact medical education and provides an opportunity to contribute to the dialogue that is occurring in the many organizations involved in medical education. We host national webinars, publish regularly in AMSPDC Pages and develop the strategic input for educational regulations that are being considered by the ACGME, the NBME and other national organizations.
Engagement Committee
The AMSPDC Engagement Committee is responsible for developing strategies and initiatives that enhance engagement and involvement across AMSPDC. Our goal is to help foster the development of pediatric department leaders and faculty whose backgrounds and experiences can contribute to the development of a pediatric workforce that meets the needs of and reflects the children we serve. The membership term is for two years.
Membership & Bylaws Committee
New Chairs Committee
The New Chairs committee supports new AMSPDC members appointed within the last three years. The Committee members familiarize new members to the organization, maintain a mentor program and develop the yearly New Chairs Program. Our goal is to foster a welcoming collaborative learning environment to help chairs transition into their roles. There are monthly calls and members assist with communication, mentorship and content development.
Nominations Committee
Pediatric Leadership Development Program (PLDP) Committee
The PLDP fellowship program aims to foster the leadership development of academic pediatricians poised to become a pediatric chair in North America. The program will prepare them to lead our profession through the rapidly changing environment of academic medicine and health care in general.
The yearlong fellowship program consists of:
- Formal Mentorship Program: This program is modeled on the current mentorship program AMSPDC has developed for new chairs. It consists of matching the candidate to a chair who matches their leadership interests and needs. The mentors are members of AMSPDC who meet the mentorship criteria set by the AMSPDC Leadership Committee. The mentor serves as support to the candidate during, and if desired by both parties, following the yearlong fellowship program.
- Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Program: This program connects all members of each year’s cohort to rely on each other for support and information and possibly to work in teams during the leadership program on their projects. During the sessions, topics of importance to successful chairs of Departments (finance, recruitment, retention, philanthropy) are presented and discussed by the fellows.
- AAMC Emerging Leaders Seminar: This seminar, sponsored by the AAMC allows PLDP fellows to join attendees from other disciplines in leadership sessions.
- Leadership Development Project: This involves development of projects of value to the home department of the fellow, completed in conjunction with the home based Chair or immediate supervisor.
- Attendance at Two Consecutive AMSPDC Annual Meetings: Fellows attend two Annual AMSPDC meetings, first as the incoming cohort of fellows then as the outgoing cohort as well as a meeting of the AMSPDC Board of Directors.
Pediatric Policy Council (PPC)
The AMSPDC Advocacy Liaisons represent AMSPDC on the Pediatric Policy Council (PPC). The PPC has representatives from the major national pediatric organizations and is led by AAP. The PPC provides advocacy and policy recommendations primarily at the national level. This provides an opportunity for AMSPDC to offer input on a variety of important issues that impact child health and pediatric research.
Planning Committee
The Annual Meeting Planning Committee needs YOU! Diverse representation from the AMSPDC family in terms of department size, chair experience and geography, etc is essential to successfully representing AMSPDC to produce a valuable and relevant annual meeting for everyone. The committee incorporates representation from other AMPSDC standing committee with “at-large” members to utilize AMSPDC member feedback/evaluations and knowledge of current “hot topics” to plan the Saturday – Sunday agenda for the annual meeting.
Research Committee
AMSPDC’s Research Committee is focused at ensuring that children and adolescents will continue to experience and benefit from innovations in medical care. Ensuring a better tomorrow for our patients depends on research focused on children and adolescents, whether in the lab, behind a computer analyzing big data, or anything in between. Our committee focuses on how AMSPDC can strengthen the ‘pediatric research pipeline’ and support those who have entered the pipeline. We ask whether the pediatric academic community is pursuing research that is relevant to the health and wellbeing of the patient population that we serve. Our pipeline programs should be training pediatric investigators of the future and our committee is committed to identifying and promoting areas of discovery that are emerging or underrepresented in child health.
AMSPDC Member Liaisons
Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
Mary Ottolini, MD, The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center
Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) /APPD Medical Education (MedEd)
Kimberly Boland, BS, MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Kimberly Boland, BS, MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine
AAMC Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS)
Douglas Carlson, MD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
AAP Council in Pediatric Education (COPE)
Kimberly Boland, BS, MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine
AAP Council on Pediatric Research (COPR)
Terence Dermody, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Council of Pediatric Subspecialties (CoPS)
Leah Harris, MD, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Steven R. Seidner, MD, UT Health San Antonio
Federation of Pediatric Organizations (FOPO)
Leslie Walker, MD, Seattle Children’s
Stephanie Davis, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Journal of Pediatrics AMSPDC Pages Editor
William Steinbach, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine