AMSPDC Officers and Board of Directors with Terms of Office
The Board of Directors meets twice yearly, once at the time of the annual meeting and once in early October. Should you have any issues or items you would like discussed or considered at either meeting, please communicate with the President or the Secretary-Treasurer.
President
Leslie Walker, MD, FAAP, FSAHM (2025-2027)
Professor and Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair Department of Pediatrics
Associate Dean University of Washington Chief Academic Officer
Senior Vice President Seattle Children’s Hospital
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 987-2150
Fax: (717) 531-3999
President Elect
Tina Cheng, MD (2025-2027)
Chief Medical Officer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Director, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation
Professor and Department of Pediatrics Chair
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
3333 Burnet Avenue,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
Phone: (513) 636-2942
Immediate Past President
Joseph W. St. Geme, III, MD (2025-2027)
Leonard & Madlyn Abramson Professor
& Chair of Peds in Pediatric Department Chair
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
34th & Civic Center Blvd., 9NW67
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 590-2766
Fax: (267) 426-0243
Secretary-Treasurer
Stephanie Duggins Davis, MD (2025-2030)
Edward C. Curnen, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
333 South Columbia Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7220
Executive Director
Laura Degnon, CAE
Executive Director
AMSPDC
6728 Old McLean Drive
McLean, VA 22101
Board Members
Kimberly Boland, MD (2025-2028)
Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
Billy F. Andrews Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Michael Cabana, MD (2023-2026)
Chair of Pediatrics in Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
3411 Wayne Avenue, #745
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone: (718) 741-2499
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (2025-2027)
Nancy C. Paduano Professor and Chair
Weill Cornell Medicine Medicine
525 East 68th Street, M-622
Box 225
New York, NY 10065
Phone: (212) 746-4111
Steve Seidner, MD (2025-2028)
Professor and Pediatric Department Chair
University of TX School of Med at San Antonio
Mary Taylor, MD (2024-2027)
Pediatric Department Chair
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
2500 N. State Street
Jackson, MS 39216
Phone: (601) 984-5214
Fax: (601) 984-5982
Ex Officio Canadian Representative
Meredith Irwin, MD
Paediatrician-in-Chief, Department of Paediatrics
Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5G 1X8
Phone: (416) 813-6122