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Board of Directors


PRESIDENT
Jim Fehr, MD
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA


PRESIDENT-ELECT
Peggy P. McNaull, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

 

SECRETARY/TREASURER
John Fiadjoe, MD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA

 

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Nina Deutsch, MD
Children’s National Medical Center
Washington, DC

 


DIRECTORS


Aditee Ambardekar, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

 


Sean Barnes, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

 


Melissa L. Brooks Peterson, MD

Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

 


Christina D. Diaz, MD

Children’s Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

 


Vidya T. Raman, MD

The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

 


Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD

Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD

 


Jina Sinskey, MD

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

 


Emmett E. Whitaker, MD

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

 

 


SECTION PRESIDENTS


Mark D. Twite, MD, BCh

CCAS Section Board President
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

 


Robert T. Wilder, MD, PhD

SPPM Section Board President
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

 


Thomas J. Long, MD, FAAP

PALC Section Board President
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

 


Concetta Lupa, MD
PAPDA Section Board President
University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC

 


BOARD LIAISONS


Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD, PhD, FAAP

Liaison and Chair; Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine – American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA

 


James DiNardo, MD

Ex-Officio – A&A Editor
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA

 


Sulpicio G. Soriano, III, MD, FAAP, FASA

Chair-ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia 
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA

 


Travis L. Reece-Nguyen, MD

Chair-SPA Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) 
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

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SPA-AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology
March 31 - April 2, 2023
Austin, TX

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