Editor
Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor
Departments of
Pediatrics and Epidemiology
Senior Scholar
Center for Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine
Attending Physician
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and
General
Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contributors
Brian K. Alverson, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Brown University School of Medicine
Hospitalist
Department of Pediatrics
Hasbro Children's
Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island
Donald H. Arnold, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Sandra
Arnold, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Erika F. Augustine, MD
Clinical Fellow in Neurology
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Resident in
Neurology
Department of Neurology
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Avery, DO
Division of Neurology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jeffrey R. Avner,
MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
Chief
Division of Pediatric Emergency Services
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, New York
Megan Aylor, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Jill M. Baren, MD, MBE,
FACEP, FAAP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and
Pediatrics
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of
Emergency Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yodit Belew, MD
Adjunct Instructor in Pediatrics
The George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia
Jay Berry,
MD, MPH
Instructor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Associate in Medicine
Complex Care Service
Children's Hospital
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Mercedes M.
Blackstone, MD
Fellow
Emergency Medicine
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Clinical Instructor
Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Evelien J. Bodar, MD
Department of General Internal Medicine
Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Kristina
Bryant, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Louisville
Hospital Epidemiologist
Kosair Children's Hospital
Louisville,
Kentucky
Jon M. Burnham, MD, MSCE
Attending Physician
Division of Rheumatology
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Jane C. Burns, MD
Professor and Chief
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Rady Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics
University of
California at San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, California
Michael G. Camitta, MD
Assistant Professor
of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Medical Director
Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Cynthia J. Campen, MD
Division of Child Neurology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael Cappello,
MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbial Pathogenesis, and
Epidemiology & Public Health
Director
Program in International
Child Health
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven,
Connecticut
John C. Christenson, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Director, Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic
Center for International
Adoption and Geographic Medicine
Ryan White Center for Infectious
Diseases
Riley Hospital for Children
Indianapolis, Indiana
Peter Clement, MD, PhD
Professor of
Otorhinolaryngology
Chairman
ENT Department
University
Hospital (V.U.B)
Free University Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
Kevin James Downes, MD
Pediatrics Resident
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Joost P.H. Drenth, MD, PhD
Professor of
Molecular Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Department of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical
Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Orooj
Fasiuddin, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Paul C.
Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Service
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kristen Feemster, MD,
MPH, MSHPR
Fellow
Division of Infectious Diseases
The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Evan Fieldston, MD, MBA
Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholar
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth K. Fiorino, MD
Fellow
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Brian T. Fisher,
DO, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of Infectious Diseases
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
John M. Flynn, MD
Associate Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery
The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gary Frank, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist
Scottish Rite Pediatric and Adolescent Consultant
Clinical Assistant
Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Joel A. Friedlander, DO, MBe
Fellow
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Instructor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Patrick G. Gallagher, MD, FAAP
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of
Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Johanna
Goldfarb, MD
Head
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic
Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve
University
Cleveland, Ohio
Mark P.
Gorman, MD
Clinical Fellow
Neurology
Children's Hospital
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Yeisid F.
Gozzo, MD
Fellow
Division of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New
Haven, Connecticut
Toni K. Gross, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of
Emergency Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Barbara A. Haber,
MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition
The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Margaret R. Hammerschlag, MD
Professor of
Pediatrics and Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
State Univesity
of New York
Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
Laura Hammitt, MD
Clinical Epidemiologist
Centre for Tropical Medicine
University of Oxford
Kilifi, Kenya
Marvin B. Harper, MD
Assistant Professor
of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician
Infectious Diseases and Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Harry R. Hill, MD
Professor
Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics and Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Richard L. Hodinka, PhD
Director, Clinical
Virology Laboratory
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Julia Hutter, MD
Fellow
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Tropical Pediatrics
Center for Vaccine Development
School of Medicine
University of
Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Mary Anne
Jackson, MD
Chief
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
School of Medicine
Kansas City,
Missouri
Emma Jacobs, MD
International Adoption Clinic
Floating Hospital for Children
Tufts
Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Samay
Jain, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Clinical Director
Movement Disorders Division
Department of Neurology
University of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chandy
C. John, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Departments of Pediatrics
and Medicine
Director
Center for Global Pediatrics
University
of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jessica K. Hart, MD
Resident in Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Binita M. Kamath, MBBChir
Assistant
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of
Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition
The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nadeem Karimbux, DMD, MMSC
Associate Professor
Department
of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity
Harvard School of Dental
Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
David Kim,
DDS, DMSc
Assistant Professor
Director of Oral Medicine,
Infection and Immunity
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Boston,
Massachusetts
Terry Klassen, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
University of Alberta
Regional Clinic Program Director
Child Health
Stollery Children's
Hospital
Capital Health
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
William C. Koch, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Virginia
Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Richmond, Virginia
Sarah Kranick, MD
Department of Neurology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matthew Kronman, MD
Fellow
Division
of Infectious Diseases
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Timothy R. La Pine,
MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
University
of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Miriam K. Laufer, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Center for Vaccine Development
University of Maryland School of
Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Matthew B.
Laurens, MD, MPH
Fellow
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and
Tropical Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of
Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Melissa A. Lerman, MD, PhD
Fellow
Division of Rheumatology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Leonard J. Levine, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Adolescent Medicine
St.
Christopher's Hospital for Children
Drexel University College of
Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rebecca
E. Levorson, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow
Division
of Infectious Disease
Children's National Medical Center
Pediatric
Infectious Disease Fellow
George Washington University School of
Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
Jennifer
S. Li, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric
Cardiology
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Clinical Research
Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Daniel
J. Licht, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Division of Child Neurology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Scott M. Lieberman,
MD, PhD
Fellow
Division of Rheumatology
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Instructor in Pediatrics
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Latania K. Logan, MD
Pediatric Infectious
Diseases Fellow
Department of Pediatrics
Children's Memorial
Hospital
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Nisha Manickam, DO
Fellow
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
and Department of Internal Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Shannon Manzi, Pharm D
ED Clinical Pharmacist
Children's Hospital Boston
Clincial
Assistant Professor
Bouve College of Pharmacy
Northeastern
University
Boston, Massachusetts
Ben J.
Marais, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Paediatrics and
Child Health
Tygerberg Children's Hospital
Stellenbosch University
Cape Town, South Africa
Beth C. Marshall, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of
Infectious Diseases
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Richmond, Virginia
Peter Mattei, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Randolph P. Matthews, MD, PhD
Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexander J. McAdams, MD, PhD
Medical Director
of Infectious Diseases Division
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor
Department of
Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah C. McBride, MD
Staff Physician
Department of Medicine
Children's Hospital
Instructor in
Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Gokce Mik, MD
Division of Orthopedic Surgery
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laurie C. Miller, MD
Associate Professor
of Pediatrics
Director
International Adoption Clinic
Tufts
University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Jason G. Newland, MD
Section of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases
Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Howard B. Panitch, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director of Clinical
Programs
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mark
S. Pasternack, MD
Chief
Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Jacques Pepin, MD, FRCPC, MSC
Department of Microbiology and
Infectious Diseases
University of Sherbrooke School of Medicine
Sherbrooke, Canada
Nadja G. Peter, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Craig Dalsimer Division of
Adolescent Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH
Instructor
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Assistant
Department of Neurology
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston,
Massachusetts
Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD
Neurologist-in-Chief
Children's Hospital Boston
Bronson Crothers
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston,
Massachusetts
Adam J. Ratner, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Microbiology
Columbia
University
New York, New York
Wolfgang
Rennert, MD, DMSc, DTMTH, FAAP
Residency Program Director
Department of Pediatrics
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia
Richard M.
Rutstein, MD
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Medical Director
Special Immunology Service and
Family Care Center
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daniel J. Salchow,
MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Director
Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Section
Department
of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Yale University School of
Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Joshua W.
Salvin, MD, MPH
Assistant in Cardiology
Department of
Cardiology
Division of Cardiac Intensive Care
Children's Hospital
Boston
Instructor in Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Nadia Sam-Agudu, MD
Fellow
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Pediatrics Program
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis,Minnesota
Thomas J. Sandora, MD
Hospital Epidemiologist
Medical Director of Infection Control
Division of Infectious Diseases
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
Boston,
Massachusetts
Robert Seese, MD
Hospitalist
Department of Pediatrics
Licking Memorial Hospital
Newark, Ohio
Kara N. Shah, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Section of
Pediatric Dermatology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Samir S. Shah, MD,
MSCE
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and
Epidemiology
Senior Scholar
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General
Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Rahul K. Shah, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics
Children's
National Medical Center
George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
Udayan K.
Shah, MD, FACS, FAAP
Director
Fellow and Resident Education in
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Nemours-Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, Delaware
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology-Head &
Neck Surgery
Jefferson Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anna Simon, MD, PhD
Department of General Internal Medicine
Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Joseph
Sleiman, MD
Clinical Assistant Instructor
Department of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Children's Hospital at SUNY Downstate
Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
Michael
J. Smith, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philip R. Spandorfer, MD, MSCE
Attending
Physician
Emergency Medicine
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at
Scottish Rite
Atlanta, Georgia
David A.
Spiegel, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of Orthopedic
Surgery
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
David M. Spiro MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Section Chief
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Doernbecher Children's Hospital
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Joseph W. St. Geme III, MD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Molecular Genetic &
Microbiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Andrew P. Steenhoff, MBBCH, DCH(UK), FCPaed(SA)
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics
Center for AIDs Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Division of Infectious Diseases
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sanjeev Swami, MD
Fellow
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tina Q. Tan, MD
Associate Professor of
Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician
Department of Pediatrics
Children's Memorial Hospital
Chicago,
Illinois
Sarah M. Taub, MD
Attending
Physician
Advocare Haddon Pediatrics
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Oana Tomescu, MD
Fellow
Craig
Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine
The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Adriana
H. Tremoulet, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Division of
Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
Rady Children's Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
University of California
San Diego,
California
Adriana Tremoulet, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
Rady Children's Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
University of
California, San Diego
San Diego, California
Louis Valiquette, MD
Associate Professor
Department of
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Faculté de médecine,
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Kishore Vellody, MD
Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
The Paul C.
Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Service
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sarah M. Wood, MD
Resident Physician
General Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert
Bruce Wright, MD, FRCPC, FAAP
Assistant Director
Division of
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of
Pediatrics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Pablo Yagupsky, MD
Director
Clinical
Microbiology Laboratory
Soroka University Medical Center
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheeva, Israel
Catherine Yen, MD, MPH
Pediatric Infectious
Diseases
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York
Matt Zahn, MD
Medical Director
Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
Assistant
Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
University of
Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky
Basil J. Zitelli, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief
The Paul C.
Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Service
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Zorc, MD,
MSCE
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department of
Pediatrics
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Emergency Medicine
The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania