Reducing Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding, Telemedicine Use in Primary Care for Children – Episode 307

Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter is recognized internationally as an expert in breastfeeding medicine. She is past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Breastfeeding, and also former member of the AAP Task Force on SIDS. Dr. Feldman-Winter has also served on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, (ABM), serves on the protocol committee, and is the ABM representative to the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is associate editor of the journal Breastfeeding Medicine as well as the Cooper Rowan Medical Journal. She is board certified by the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine, is professor of pediatrics at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), and served as Division Head, Adolescent Medicine at Cooper University Healthcare until clinical retirement in 2022. Finally, Dr. Feldman-Winter is co-founder of the first Baby Café in New Jersey, located at the Ferry Avenue Library, funded by the New Jersey Department of Health in collaboration with CMSRU. 

Dr. Alexander Fiks is a primary care pediatrician, a professor of pediatrics, and holds a Distinguished Endowed Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Board certified in clinical informatics, Dr. Fiks’ research is aimed at improving outcomes for ambulatory pediatric patients through primary care practice-based research with a focus on improving health and health care decision-making through health information technology. His work has examined how electronic health record data may best be used to improve primary care, medication use and child health more broadly. With the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network, which he directs, Dr. Fiks has overseen the creation of the Collaborative Electronic Reporting for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER2), an electronic health record database designed to support pharmacoepidemiologic and other comparative effectiveness studies that currently includes >3 million US children from across multiple health systems.  

Dr. Fiks is also the Director of Clinical Futures, a CHOP Research Institute Center of Emphasis, and the Director of the Possibilities Project, a CHOP program leading primary care practice innovation. With ongoing studies and innovation projects involving hundreds of thousands of children, Dr. Fiks’ research regularly informs the primary care of children across the United States. 

Dr. Kristin Ray is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a general pediatrician, health services researcher, and clinical informatician. Dr. Ray’s research program seeks to improve pediatric health care system effectiveness, efficiency, family-centeredness and equity, with a focus on use of health information technology and telemedicine.