Cerebral Palsy Medical Home, Disparities in Swimming Skills – Episode 142

Garey Noritz is an Internist and Pediatrician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. He is the Chief of the Division of Complex Care and serves as Chair of the Council on Children with Disabilities of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Noritz graduated from Brown University School of Medicine. He completed his residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center/ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, and Hospice/ Palliative Medicine. He is also past Chair of the Lifespan Committee of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.

Michelle Macy, MD, MS, FAAP, is a pediatric emergency physician and NIH-funded injury prevention researcher at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Scientific Director of Community, Population Health, and Outcomes Research in the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, where she Directs the Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center. Her research in water safety seeks to understand and address inequities in opportunities to learn to swim with a focus on historical and intergenerational barriers to access to pools and beaches.