The academic pediatric association: The first 50 years

TY - JOUR

T1 - The academic pediatric association

T2 - The first 50 years

AU - Roberts, Kenneth B.

AU - Stein, Ruth E.K.

AU - Cheng, Tina L.

N1 - Funding Information: Activities continued to foster research and assist investigators. The Young Investigators Grants program expanded with collaboration and support from AHRQ, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the Commonwealth Fund. National Institutes of Health–style reviews were provided to finalists by established APA researchers. Two collaborative research networks were established by the APA, the Continuity Research Network and Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings, a collaborative project of the APA, AAP, and Society for Hospital Medicine. APA members have figured prominently in the AAP Pediatric Research in Office Settings network, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, and the newly funded Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network as well. Funding Information: The APA also established leadership positions in 2 “new” areas of interest in pediatrics (environmental health and hospital medicine), while strengthening its support of pediatric emergency medicine. As her presidential project, Ellen Crain created the National Fellowship Training Program in Environmental Pediatrics with support from the Education Foundation of America, the New York Community Trust, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The success of the program is reflected in the APA receiving the United States Environmental Protection Agency Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award in 2006. The Michael Shannon award honors the best abstract in the areas of pharmacology/toxicology, drug reactions/events, substance abuse, environmental health, disaster preparedness/response, and emergency medicine at the annual meeting; it was first bestowed in 2010. Funding Information: The APA wrestled with 3 issues for much of its existence: how to strengthen and gain recognition for ambulatory/general pediatrics; how to retain groups with special interests; and what name best described the organization. Programs sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Title VII helped establish academic general pediatrics as a field. 24 As subspecialties began to proliferate in pediatrics during the 1980s, the APA Board of Directors considered—and decided against—promoting academic general pediatrics as a subspecialty. In 2003, as the Council on Pediatric Subspecialties was being formed, the APA was an invited participant, representing academic general pediatrics. (The first chair of Council on Pediatric Subspecialties was APA president Paul Darden.) The following year, Stephen Ludwig convened a 1.5 day conference at which APA and ABP leaders decided to not pursue subspecialty status but to develop a program to strengthen academic general pediatrics fellowship programs. HRSA awarded a $100,000 grant to develop fellowship guidelines for accreditation (Ludwig’s presidential project). 25,26 The program now provides voluntary accreditation and consultation for AGP fellowship programs, including those that focus on health services research, clinical effectiveness, quality and safety, community pediatrics, environmental health, and hospital medicine. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

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U2 - 10.1016/j.acap.2011.02.001

DO - 10.1016/j.acap.2011.02.001

M3 - Article

C2 - 21570002

AN - SCOPUS:79955940830

SN - 1876-2859

VL - 11

SP - 173

EP - 180

JO - Academic Pediatrics

JF - Academic Pediatrics

IS - 3

ER -