​Tobacco Consortium

Since 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium has set an agenda for child and adolescent tobacco prevention and cessation. This agenda has been incorporated into the scientific, educational, and policy mission and goals of the Richmond Center. The Tobacco Consortium agenda includes youth tobacco prevention and control, children's exposure to secondhand smoke, social policy and international issues. The consortium explores cutting-edge research and literature synthesis using a participatory agenda-setting process among its members. Membership includes junior and senior researchers committed to addressing tobacco as a child and adolescent health issues. Members are nominated for inclusion in the consortium and voted on by the Richmond Center Steering Committee.

Members of the consortium provide input in the development of grants related to child health care, children and secondhand smoke, pediatric tobacco issues, tobacco policy, and equity. Consortium activities also include numerous publications and presentations at national professional meetings on child health and tobacco control.

The Tobacco Consortiums 2026-2028 members are listed below. To be updated on the AAP Richmond Center’s activities, including the next call for membership for the Tobacco Consortium,  join the AAP Richmond Center email list.

AAP Tobacco Consortium Members

Chair: Karen M. Wilson, MD, MPH, FAAP
University of Rochester

Workgroup Lead – DEI:  Rajani Sadasivam, PhD
UMass Chan Medical School

Workgroup Lead – Emerging Threats:  Erin Vogel, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Campus

Workgroup Lead – Policy: Ginny Chadwick, MPH, MA
Brandeis University, Massachusetts General Hospital

Liaison – Tobacco Consortium / Section on Nicotine & Tobacco Prevention and Treatment:
Sarah E. Bauer, MD, FAAP
Indiana University School of Medicine

Dania Abu Baker, PhD
Stanford University

Rachel Boykan, MD, FAAP
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University/Stony Brook Pediatrics

Lisa Brown, MS
Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth

Alice Little Caldwell, MD, MPH, FAAP
Medical College of Georgia

Siu Chee Sophia Chan, PRDHE, MEd, MPH, PhD, RN, RSCN, FFPH, FAAN, GBS, JP
The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health

Jennifer Cofer, DrPH, MPH, CHES
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Lara Coughlin, PhD
University of Michigan

Jose Cucalon Calderon, MD, FAAP
Renown Health

Kimberly Dickinson, MD, MPH, FAAP
Emory University

Ashley Ebersole, MD, MS, FAAP
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Lauren Elizabeth (LE) Faricy, MD, FAAP
University of Vermont Children’s Hospital

Mark Gottlieb, JD
Public Health Advocacy Institute

Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, FSAHM
Stanford University School of Medicine

Paul Truman Harrell, III, PhD, MA
Old Dominion University

Brian P. Jenssen, MD, MSHP, FAAP
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Niharika Khanna, MBBS, MD, DGO
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Juhan (John) Lee, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine / 
Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center

Timothy Lefeber, MD, FAAP
West Virginia University, WVU Medicine

Dongmei Li, PhD
University of Rochester

Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, PhD, FAAP 
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 

Delvon T Mattingly, PhD, MS
University of Kentucky

Devin M McCauley, PhD
Stanford University

Lindy Upton McGee, MD, FAAP
Baylor College of Medicine

Sharon A. McGrath-Morrow, MD, MBA
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Robert McMillen, PhD
Mississippi State University

Ashley L. Merianos, PhD
University of Cincinnati

Annie Montreuil, PhD
Institut national de santé publique du Québec (Quebec Public Health Institute)

Eric S Mull, DO, FAAP
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Myra Muramoto, MD, MPH, FAAFP
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Jennifer O'Loughlin, PhD, FCAHS, CRC 
University of Montreal

Ajanta Patel, MD, MPH
Rush University (as of Aug 17, 2026)

Allison Peltier, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
North Dakota State University

Aleca Queen, DSW
School District of Oconee County

Katelyn Romm, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences

Crystal Shen, MD, MPH, FAAP
King County Eastgate Clinic / Seattle Children's Hospital

Danielle Smith, PhD, MPH
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Deidre Sully, MPH, PMP
Deidre Sully Public Health Consulting

Susanne Tanski, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dartmouth Health Children's/Geisel School of Medicine

Aishwarya Thakur, MD, FAAP
Children’s National Hospital

Andrea C. Villanti, PhD, MPH
Rutgers School of Public Health

Susan Walley, MD, NCTTP, FAAP
Children's National Hospital

Robert J. Wellman, PhD, CAS 
UMass Chan Medical School

Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH, FAAP
MassGeneral Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Hong Xue, PhD
George Mason University

Thomas Ylioja, PhD, MSW
North American Quitline Consortium

Xia Zheng, PhD
Stony Brook University