Past Visiting Scholars

• Robert Blum, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.,
  Emeritus William H. Gates, Sr. Professor Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Past Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Past-President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
  Served on the American Board of Pediatrics
  Past chair of the Guttmacher Institute Board of Directors
  Inaugural chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Adolescent Health
  2006 member of the NAM
  Consultant to The World Bank, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  ​WHO - TAG of the MCH Department and Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the Human Reproductive Program
   “The Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease: Long, Dazed Journey into Clinic”
  (November 2023)

• Paul A. Offit, M.D.
  Director of the Vaccine Education Center and Professor of Pediatrics
  Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology
  Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  “How to Communicate Science to the Public—or Die Trying”
  (October 2018)

• Donna Ferriero, M.D., M.S.
  W.H. and Marie Wattis Distinguished Professor & Chair
  Department of Pediatrics
  Physician-in-Chief, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
  University of California, San Francisco
  “The Vulnerable Newborn Brain – Lessons from Neuroimaging”
  (April 2016)
• Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
  Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain
  Weill Cornell Medical School
  New York Presbyterian Hospital
  "Where Did the New DSM-5 Criteria Come From and Where Will They Take Us?"
  (June 2015)
• Edward R.B. McCabe, M.D., Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President and Medical Director
  March of Dimes Foundation National Office
  "Early-life Antecedents of Children's Health and Disease"
  (June 2014)
• Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D.
  Dean of the School of Medicine and
  Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
  Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
  Duke University School of Medicine
  "Forging an Understanding of Iron Disorders"
  (March 2014)
• Benard P. Dreyer, M.D.
  Professor of Pediatrics & Director of
  Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  New York University School of Medicine
  Director of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center
  “To Create a Better World for Children and Families:  The Case for Ending Childhood Poverty”
  (March 2013)
• Leonard I. Zon, M.D.
  Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
  Director of the Stem Cell Program
  Children's Hospital Boston
  "Pathways Regulating Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Migration" 
  (May 2012)
• Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, M.D.
  Anderson Family Endowed Chair in Medical Education, Research and Patient Care;
  Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  "Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease: Complexities from the Clinic to the Cilium"
  (November, 2011)
• Charles J. Homer, M.D., .M.PH.
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
  "QI and Research - Complementary Ways of Knowing"
  (November, 2010)
• Thomas J. Walsh, M.D.
  Director, Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Supportive Care Program
  Weill-Cornell Medical Center
  Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  "Medical Mycology: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Life-Threatening Infections in
  Immunocompromised Children"
  (April, 2010)
• Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D.
  Director, Vascular Program
  Institute for Cell Engineering
  C. Michael Armstrong Professor
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  "Regulation of Oxygen Homeostasis by Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1"
  (June 2009)
• Steven H. Abman, M.D.
  Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center
  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  and the Children's Hospital
  "New Thoughts on the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia"
  (February 2009)
• Jo Ivey, Boufford, M.D.
  President, New York Academy of Medicine;
  Professor of Public Service, Health Policy &
  Management, Wagner Graduate School of
  Public Service, New York University and
  Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, New York University
  Medical School
  "Is America's Health Policy Healthy?"
  (December 2008)
• Ronald E. Dahl, M.D.
  Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
  Director of the Child and Adolescent Sleep and Neurobehavioral Laboratory
  University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  "Adolescent Brain Development: A Period of Vulnerabilities and Opportunities"
  (April 2008)
• Salvatore DiMauro, M.D.
  Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology
  Department of Neurology
  Columbia University, New York
  "Mitochondrial Diseases: An Update"
  (May 2007)
• Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.             
  Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
  “What to Do With a Patient Who Smokes”
  (March 2006)
• Alan H. Jobe, M.D., Ph.D.           
  Professor of Pediatrics
  Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology
  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
  University of Cincinnati
  "Lung Maturation:  Research Resulting from Clinical Observations"
  (Oct. 2005)
• Richard J. O’Reilly, M.D.           
  Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
  Chief, Bone Marrow Transplantation Service
  Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  New York, New York
  “Antigen-specific T-cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy of Viral Diseases and Residual Disease Following Allogeneic Marrow Transplants”
  (Sept. 2005)
• Bruce R. Blazar, M.D.              
  Professor and Andersen Chair in
  Transplantation Immunology
  Department of Pediatrics
  Associate Chair, Division of Blood and
  Marrow Transplantation
  University of Minnesota
  “Improving the Outcome of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation by Down-Regulating the Immune System”
  (Nov. 2004)
• Cuthberto Garza, M.D., Ph.D.            
  Assistant Provost and Chair
  Department of Nutrition
  Cornell University
  “ Raising the Bar: Nutrition and Health”
  (April 2004)
• H. Scott Baldwin, M.D.              
  Professor of Pediatrics
  Cell and Developmental Biology
  Vanderbilt University
  “Genetic Regulation of Congenital Heart Disease: Old problems – New paradigms”
  (Feb. 2004)