Moira Szilagyi, Foster Care

Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the medical director of foster care pediatrics for the Monroe County, New York State Department of Health. The editor of Fostering Health: Health Care for Children in Foster Care, Szilagyi has contributed to national efforts to improve health services and health outcomes for children in foster care and has served on the Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care at the American Academy of Pediatrics and its section on adoption and foster care. She has served as faculty for a breakthrough collaborative on foster care health care developed by the National Institute for Child Health Quality and has served in an advisory capacity to various local, state, and national groups interested in this area. She has written several articles and chapters on the health needs of this population and continues to educate doctors in training and her peers and colleagues about children in foster care.