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Region I

JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH
JoAnna.K.Leyenaar@hitchcock.org

Corinna Rea, MD
Corinna.Rea@childrens.harvard.edu


Region II

Melissa Cellini, MD, MEd
melissa.cellini@gmail.com

Katie McPeak, MD
mcpeakke@email.chop.edu

John Rausch, MD
jr2163@cumc.columbia.edu


Region III

Anne Fuller, MD
anne.fuller@sickkids.ca

Banku Jairath, MD
bjairath@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Abigail Myers, MD
amyers@pennstatehealth.psu.edu


Region IV

Rebecca Carlin, MD
rcarlin@childrensnational.org

Melissa Long, MD
MFLong@childrensnational.org

Elizabeth Wolf, MD, MPH
elizabeth.wolf@vcuhealth.org

Charles Wood, MD, MPH
charles.wood@duke.edu


Region V

Rita Patel, MD,MPH
ritapatelmd@hotmail.com

Stacey Shubeck, MD
Stacey.Shubeck@beaumont.edu

Mary Wroblewski, MD
mary.wroblewski@utoledo.edu


Region VI

Philip Abraham, MD
philipmabraham@wustl.edu

Russell McCulloh, MD
rmcculloh@childrensomaha.org

Sarah Vepraskas, MD
svepraskas@mcw.edu


Region VII

Marcella Houser, MD
mhouse@lsuhsc.edu

Ana Monterrey, MD, MPH
monterre@bcm.edu

Rosemary Nabaweesi, DrPH, MBChB
rnabaweesi@uams.edu


Region VIII

Rita Nathawad, MD
rita.nathawad@jax.ufl.edu

Christine SanGiovanni, MD
christinesangiovanni@gmail.com

Chang Wu, MD, MSCR
cwu@peds.uab.edu


Region IX

Jolene Collins, MD, MACM
jocollins@chla.usc.edu

Manaswitha Khare, MD
mkhare@rchsd.org

Adam Schickedanz, MD PhD
Adam.Schickedanz@gmail.com


Region X

Amy Beck, MD, MPH
BeckA@peds.ucsf.edu

Christina Suh, MD
christina.suh@childrenscolorado.org

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