Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Pediatrics was launched in 1989. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of pediatrics are divided into 18 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editor-in-Chief and Section Editors for this issue. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Margaret HostetterMargaret HostetterMargaret Kendrick Hostetter, MD, was born in Toledo, Ohio, USA and graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, USA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa as a National Merit Scholar. After graduate school in English literature at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA, she matriculated at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA and graduated AOA in 1975, ranked first in the class. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, USA (1975–1978) and a combined fellowship in infectious diseases at Boston Children's, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, USA and the Beth Israel, USA (1978–1980). After two years as instructor at Boston Children's, she moved to the University of Minnesota, USA, where over 16 years she rose to become the American Legion Heart Research Professor (endowed chair), Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics. In 1998, she was recruited to the Department of Pediatrics at Yale, USA, as head of the Yale Child Health Research Center. In 2002, she became Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the Jean McLean Wallace Professor (endowed chair), the first woman to hold that position at Yale. She served as chair at Yale until 2010, when she was recruited to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, USA, and became the first female chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. She retired from her position at Cincinnati Children's in February 2020 and now serves as Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Pediatrics. In the national arena, she has been elected President of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. Peer recognition includes several awards for her research on Streptococcus pneumoniae and Candida albicans from the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and private foundations. Other memberships include the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association for American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine. She has been principal investigator of NIH grants from 1985 to 2020 and served as program director for the NICHD-funded Pediatric Scientist Development Program for more than 22 years, where she fostered the research career development of more than 200 pediatric physician-scientists across the US and Canada. Graduates of the PSDP now hold leadership positions in research and academic medicine throughout North America. She lives in New York City, where her two children and four grandchildren reside. SECTION EDITORS Thao-Ly Phan-VoThao-Ly Phan-VoThao-Ly Tam Phan, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA a Senior Research Scientist with the Nemours Center for Healthcare Delivery Science, and Medical Director of the Healthy Weight and Wellness Clinic at Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware, USA. She received her Medical Degree from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and completed her pediatric residency and an Academic General Pediatric fellowship at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA also earning her Master of Public Health at the Jefferson School of Population Health during fellowship. Dr Phan has participated in several national obesity working groups, including the PEDSnet Healthy Weight Network, the Children's Hospitals Association's Focus on a Fitter Future, and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight's Expert Exchange. Dr Phan has been the recipient of several NIH grants and is currently a research project lead for the Nemours REACH Center, a NIGMS Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. She is also multi-PI for the Delaware site of the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN), serving as site PI for several ISPCTN clinical trials and Co-Chair for the ISPCTN's Obesity Working Group. Dr Phan's research interests are inspired by her experiences as a pediatrician working with families of children with obesity and centered around understanding and addressing psychosocial risk factors that contribute to disparities in health outcomes among children with obesity and developing interventions to engage families of children with obesity of diverse backgrounds in treatment, leveraging technology and stakeholder-engaged methods. Brigitte WidemannBrigitte WidemannAs chief of National Cancer Institute's Pediatric Oncology Branch, Dr Widemann oversees and active basic, translational and clinical research program for children and young adults with hematologic and solid malignancies. Dr Widemann joined the NCI in 1992 as a pediatric hematology oncology fellow after having obtained her MD and completed pediatric residency at the University of Cologne in Germany. Her research has been focused on drug development and early clinical trials for children with refractory solid tumours or genetic tumour predisposition syndromes, in particular neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). The work of her research team on NF1 resulted in the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved medical therapy, the MEK inhibitor selumetinib, for children with NF1 and inoperable, symptomatic plexiform neurofibroma. She received tenure at the NIH in 2009 and became the Chief of the POB in 2016. Dr Widemann is a member of the Association of American Physicians and recipient of the AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research. She serves as special advisor to the NCI Director for childhood cancer and has authored more than 200 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters, and has conducted many clinical trials. Shevaun Mackie DoyleShevaun Mackie DoyleShevaun Mackie Doyle, MD is an associate professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, USA and associate attending surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr Doyle completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at Hospital for Special Surgery and pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. In the department of pediatric orthopaedic surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery, Dr Doyle serves as the director of medical student and professional education and the communications and website editor. For the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Dr Doyle is a website content, annual national meeting, and Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (JPOSNA) journal reviewer. Her clinical interests include clubfoot, developmental dysplasia of the hip, torticollis, and pediatric orthopaedic trauma. Henry H BernsteinHenry H BernsteinDr Bernstein is a Professor of Pediatrics at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York, USA. He taps into his extensive 39–year experience as a general pediatrician in private practice, the National Health Service Corps, and as Chief of General Academic Pediatrics at urban, suburban, and rural children's hospitals to promote the health and well-being of children, their families, and their communities. His private, community-based primary care (generalist) experiences in combination with academic leadership responsibilities have provided him with a value-added, translational science perspective, unique from many others in academia. This tacit knowledge enables him to fulfil a lifelong passion of communicating, educating, and translating science into clinical settings, educational venues, policymaking, and media interactions to advance the health of children. Research is consistently woven into the fabric of Dr Bernstein's clinical practice, which has served as a “laboratory” for his active studies. His research and quality improvement initiatives focus on issues important to Academic General Pediatrics and community-based practice, including immunizations, infectious diseases, postpartum newborn discharge, childhood obesity, breastfeeding, health promotion, preventive health screening in primary care, technology and medical education. His commitment, innovative spirit, and enthusiasm also encompass many facets of medical education along the continuum from training and mentoring future physicians to fostering lifelong learning and supporting the continuous professional development of practicing pediatricians. Dr Bernstein is a voting member of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) and a former voting member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP). He serves as a consultant on the ACIP COVID-19, Influenza, and the Combined Adult and Pediatric Immunization Schedules workgroups. He also is an ex-officio member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee) and was Associate Editor of the AAP's Red Book Online for the past 13 years. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of PediaLink, the AAP's online home for lifelong learning, and past Chair of the interdisciplinary Bright Futures Health Promotion Workgroup, which created a distinctive health promotion curriculum, videos, and a companion educational website (www.pediatricsinpractice.org). Dr Bernstein has been Editor of the Office Pediatrics Series in Current Opinion in Pediatrics since 1995 and was Senior Editor of Pediatrics on the public website of Harvard Medical School's Health Publications Division for 17 years. He regularly shares his knowledge and expertise by educating the public, writing for health information websites and often participating in media interviews on a variety of pediatric health care issues including immunizations, diagnosis and treatment of common childhood infectious diseases and conditions, and practical information for parents, teachers and caregivers. In the spirit of lifelong learning, Dr Bernstein earned a Masters in Healthcare Management (MHCM) at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA in 2013 and has been a faculty member in this Executive Education Masters degree program since. He actively maintains his certification by the American Board of Pediatrics. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, USA after earning his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine, USA. Hank and his wife, Sophie, have been married for 43 years, are extremely proud of their 39-year-old daughter, Lauren, and 33-year-old son, David, and are “over the moon” with their 2 granddaughters, Eva and Vienne.

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