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Organization and Membership

The Society is structured with an executive council which includes the co-chairs of the functional committees. The committees are:

Committees

  1. Administration - Responsible for managing the operational structure of the Society including day to day activities.
  2. Advocacy - Responsible for creating a process for developing/establishing advocacy positions or statements on behalf of the Society.
  3. Communications - Responsible for developing communication with members, other societies, sister organizations and the general public.
  4. Development - Responsible for overseeing finances of the organization and helping to secure additional resources.
  5. Legal and Governance - Responsible for developing the governance of the Society, including by-laws, membership requirements, dues and other governance issues.
  6. Meetings/Program - Responsible for planning an annual meeting and working with other societies to include our programming in their meetings.
  7. Membership - Responsible for expanding SECH membership and identifying other disciplines and societies with whom to work and participate.

Executive Council

bullet Pippa Coulter Abston, MD - Huntsville, AL
bullet Bronwen Anders, MD - Lakeside, CA
bullet Helen Duplessis, MD - UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, Los Angeles, CA
bullet Robert Greenberg, MD - University of NM School of Medicine, Coralles, NM
bullet Jeffrey Goldhagen, MD - University of Florida at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
bullet Peter A. Gorski, MD - Children's Board of Hillsborough County and the
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
bullet Fernando Guerra, MD - San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, San Antonio, TX
bullet Robert Kahn, MD - Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
bullet Danielle Laraque, MD - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
bullet Paul Melinkovich, MD - Denver Health Department, Denver, CO
bullet Elisa Nicholas, MD - Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach, CA
bullet Francis Rushton, MD - Beaufont Pediatrics, Beaufont, SC
bullet Peter Simon, MD - Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, RI
bullet Thomas Tonniges, MD - Boystown Institute, Omaha, NE

Additional Organizing Members

bullet Anne Beale, MD - The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
bullet Richard David, MD - Cook County Hospital - Chicago, IL
bullet Laura Janna, MD - Physicians Clinic Regency - Omaha, NE
bullet James Perrin, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
bullet Lawrence Reynolds, MD - Mott Children's Medical Center, Flint, MI
bullet Edward Schor, MD - The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
bullet Barbara Starfield, MD - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
bullet Michael Weitzman, MD - Center for Child Health Research -AAP, Rochester, NY
bullet Paul Wise, MD - Stanford University, Stanford, CA


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