Faculty Expert Panel
One goal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence is to disseminate and implement policy and best practices in pediatric tobacco control in clinical and community pediatrics to pediatricians and other health care providers.
The purpose of the AAP Richmond Center Faculty Expert Panel is to help expand outreach and education of child health clinicians by supporting brief, effective clinical interventions to reduce and eliminate children's exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke and by supporting clinician advocates in community pediatric/public health interventions.
The Faculty Expert Panel will help the AAP Richmond Center disseminate best practices in tobacco control. This panel is comprised of individuals experienced in tobacco control. These stakeholders will utilize tools and methods to assist communities, clinicians, and other stakeholders in addressing children and family tobacco control. Our vision is that our activities will help pediatricians and other child advocates become active participants in clinical and community action to promote tobacco control, and eliminate tobacco use and exposure.
Request a Faculty Expert: Faculty members are available for grand rounds, CME sessions, and other professional events and can be requested by contacting the Richmond Center. Panel members are listed below, with their institution and areas of expertise- please utilize this information when trying to identify a potential speaker. When submitting a request, please provide as much information as possible about your event, including organization, dates, location, costs covered by the organization, estimated number of attendees, topics of interest, and potential speakers. Each request will be reviewed as it is received. Note that we cannot guarantee that a faculty member will be available for an event. Please wait to publicize the involvement of any AAP Richmond Center faculty member until confirmed by Center staff.
Faculty Expert Panel Members
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University;
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Areas of expertise: adolescent health, advocacy, law, preventive medicine
Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD, FAAP
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Areas of expertise: international heath, environmental heath, epidemiology, pediatric secondhand smoke exposure, respiratory disease, sudden infant death
Harold Farber, MD, MSPH, FAAP, FCCP
Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children's Hospital
Areas of expertise: pediatric respiratory health/diseases, pediatric asthma, patient education, tobacco dependence treatment, health services, quality improvement
Mark Gottlieb, JD
Public Health Advocacy Institute; Northeastern University School of Law
Areas of expertise: tobacco product regulation, public policy, tobacco litigation
Judith A. Groner, MD, FAAP
Nationwide Childrens Hospital; The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Areas of expertise: post-partum and primary care cessation, pediatric precursors of cardiovascular health, obesity, adolescent cessation, emerging tobacco products
Jonathan D. Klein, MD, MPH, FAAP
Director, Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence
Associate Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatrics
Areas of expertise: adolescent preventive services, health services research, international health, tobacco control, obesity, behavioral change
Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute
Areas of expertise: medical home, international, cessation, children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), children's health insurance program (CHIP), maternal cessation, family health, health care financing
Sharon McGrath-Morrow, MD, MBA, FAAP
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Areas of expertise: pulmonary health, neonatal health care, lung disease
Robert McMillen, PhD
Social Science Research Center; Mississippi State University
Areas of expertise: emerging tobacco products, social psychology, social opinion surveying, survey research, smoke-free laws, social media
Kevin E. Nelson, MD, PhD
University of Utah Primary Children’s Medical Center
Areas of expertise: pediatric secondhand smoke exposure, smoking guideline implementation, smoking attributable healthcare utilization, state tobacco control policy, advocacy
Thomas H. Peterson, MD, FAAP
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Areas of expertise: smoking cessation– teenage, adult, and inpatient; 2 As + R, smoke-free campuses, community advocacy/activism, childhood obesity, employee/business wellness programs, healthy hospitals, community wellness and prevention
Shawn Ralston, MD, FAAP
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Areas of expertise: hospital medicine, cessation, respiratory illnesses, motivational interviewing, international tobacco control
Dottie Schell, BS, RN, TAS, CCE, CBC
Pennsylvania Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
Areas of expertise: maternal and child health, smoke free families, pregnancy and tobacco, breastfeeding
Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH, FAAP
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Areas of expertise: cessation, smoke-free movies, youth smoking prevention, adolescent health, preventive care, emerging products, nanotechnology
J. Gary Wheeler, MD, FAAP
Arkansas Department of Health; University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Areas of expertise: advocacy, state legislation, infectious diseases, public health, smoke-free campuses, policy change
Karen M. Wilson, MD, MPH, FAAP
Children's Hospital Colorado
Areas of expertise: Smoke-free multi-unit housing, hospital medicine, inpatient care, respiratory infections, secondhand smoke exposure in hospitalized children
Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH, FAAP
Harvard Medical School; MGH Center for Child & Adolescent Health Policy
Areas of expertise: thirdhand smoke, pediatric office system change, smoke-free multi-unit housing, emerging products, policy change, Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE)
