Advocacy Grand Rounds cohosted by PEDS! Oct 13 @ 6PM
Boston Children’s Pediatrician Dr. Judith Palfrey will be speaking about her career in advocacy at Grand Rounds, including her role as executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! program. More details and her bio are below.
Advocacy Grand Rounds
Co-hosted by:
BU Advocacy Training Program (BuATP) and Pediatric Education & Development Society (PEDS)
We are very excited to announce that Boston Children’s Pediatrician Dr. Judith Palfrey will be coming to speak to us about her career in physician advocacy.
When: Thursday October 13th, 2016
Where: L203
Time: 5:45pm – Dinner will be served
6:00pm – Event will begin
Dr. Palfrey is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, former chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and 2009–2010 president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was named executive director of Let’s Move! a program developed by First Lady Michelle Obama to target childhood obesity. Her research has focused on the delivery of community services to children, particularly children and youth with special health care need, and the ways in which pediatricians could address social determinants of health as part of their routine pediatric professional responsibility. Dr. Palfrey has championed community medicine and pediatric advocacy, serving as the national director of the Annie Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative. This national program has had a major impact on the training of pediatric residents and on the children and families they serve. Dr. Palfrey is the author of more than 100 papers on community medicine and advocacy, as well as the books Community Child Health (Praeger, 1994) and Child Health in America: Making a Difference through Advocacy (Johns Hopkins Press, 2006).