Director

Henry   L   Shapiro ,  MD

Project Director for dbpeds.org. Dr. Shapiro is the Medical Director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at All Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and immediate past chair of the AAP Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Shapiro is Board Certified in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

Project Co-Director

Frances   Page   Glascoe ,  Ph.D.

Dr. Glascoe is a co-director of dbpeds.org. A nationally known expert on screening test development, Dr. Glascoe is also author and publisher of PEDS, a screening test based on parent report. Dr. Glascoe serves as editor of the AAP Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Newsletter. She was the recipient of the Dale Richmond Award from the AAP.

Advisory Committee Member

Paula   Duncan ,  MD

Youth health director at the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont School of Medicine. Nationally, she cochairs the Health, Early Care, and Education Consortium of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Center for Child Health Research. Dr. Duncan is the AAP Community Pediatrics Action Group chair and a past chair of the AAP Committee on School Health.

Margaret   Dunkle

Senior Fellow with the Center for Health Services Research & Policy at George Washington University. Her work is supported by The California Endowment and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Previously, she was director of the Institute for Educational Leadership's Policy Exchange and is the 2004 recipient of the AAP’s Dale Richmond Award for contributions in child development.

Paul   Dworkin ,  MD

Director and Chairman of The Center for Children's Health and Development at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT. Dr. Dworkin is also a Professor and Head of General Pediatrics at University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Dworkin initiated Connecticut’s Help Me Grow Project, an effort to coordinate early identification and services state-wide.

Marian   Earls ,  MD

Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Medical Director at Guilford Child Health, Inc. in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Earls led the Assuring Better Child Development (ABCD) project in North Carolina which was funded by the Commonweatlh Fund of NYC to integrate developmental services (screening, surveillance, parent education) into pediatric practice.

Peter   Gorski ,  MD, MPA

Professor of Public Health, Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of South Florida and Director of the Lawton & Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies at USF. Dr. Gorski has served as President of the non-profit child health foundation, WellChild, President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and Dependent Care.

Amy   Hasselkus ,  MA, CCC-SLP

Certified speech-language pathologist and current Associate Director of Health Care Services at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Prior to coming to ASHA, she worked with adults and children in acute care inpatient, rehabilitation, long-term care, home health, and outpatient settings. Her primary work included working with young children (birth to three) and preschoolers with speech, language, and swallowing/feeding disorders.

Pamela   A   Mason ,  M.Ed, CCC-A

Director of Audiology Professional Practices at the American Speech Hearing Language Association. Prior to beginning her work at ASHA in 2001 Pam was a clinical audiologist and served as the Director of the Audiology Center at the George Washington University Hospital. Currently at ASHA she serves as ex-officio to the Joint Committee for Infant Hearing and to the working group Audiological Assessment of Children from Birth to Five Years of Age.

Micheal   Regalado ,  MD

Director of Developmental Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Regalado is also Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Judith   Shaw ,  RN, MPH

Director of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) and Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine

Jane   Squires ,  PhD

Associate Professor in the College of Education, Director of the Early Intervention Program, and Associate Director of the University Center on Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She is a co-author of two screening assessments, the Ages & Stages Questionnaires: A Parent-Completed Child-Monitoring System and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, used for early identification and prevention of developmental delays.

Darcy   Steinberg ,  MPH

Director of the Bright Futures Education Center and Pediatric Implementation Project. Ms. Steinburg also directs the Division of Developmental Pediatrics and Preventive Services at the American Academy of Pediatrics

Bonnie   Strickland ,  PhD

Chief of the Integrated Services Branch of the Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Franklin   Trimm ,  MD

Dr. Trimm was recently appointed liaison to the Society of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Resident and Medical Student Education Program. Dr. Trimm is also Professor and Director of Pediatrics and the Pediatrics Residency Program Director at the University of South Alabama.

Lynn   Wegner ,  MD, FAAP

Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Wegner is the Chair of the Section on Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Nancy   Wiseman

founder and president of First Signs, a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating professionals and parents about early identification and intervention of children with autism and other developmental disorders. Before devoting herself to First Signs, Nancy worked in corporate communications for over 20 years building brand awareness, educating the public, and creating major marketing campaigns for international companies in the financial, travel, office products, computer, and software industries. Nancy is also the mother of a child diagnosed with autism.

Marshalyn   Yeargin-Allsopp ,  MD

Medical Epidemiologist for the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has designed and implemented the first U.S. population-based study of developmental disabilities in school-age children in an urban area, which has served as the basis for an ongoing CDC developmental disabilities surveillance system, which includes the recent addition of autism.

Board Member

Edward   L   Schor ,  MD

Assistant Vice President of The Commonwealth Fund of New York City. Dr. Schor, a Pediatrician, leads The Fund's Child Development and Preventive Care program.

Consultant

Mary   A   Crane ,  PhD, LSW

Manager of the Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and Dependent Care, the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and the Section on Adoption at the American Academy of Pediatrics. In addition, Dr. Crane manages the Healthy Foster Care America program at the Academy.

Richard   Scoville ,  PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Dr. Scoville also serves as Adjunct Staff at The Rand Corporation and a Consultant for the National Initiative for Children's Health Care Quality (NICHQ) and the North Carolina Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement.