President Elect
Desmond Kelly, MD
Dr. Kelly is Medical Director of the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Academics at the Children's Hospital of the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center in Greenville South Carolina. He is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
After graduating from the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, he worked in training positions in Pediatrics and Psychiatry in London. His U.S. residency in Pediatrics was at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield followed by Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics fellowship training at the University of Maryland for a year, and 2 years at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. He then returned to the faculty at Southern Illinois University for 7 years before joining The Children's Hospital in Greenville in 1995. He is currently a member of the SDBP Board of Directors and has served on the executive committee of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the AAP. He was a member of the national committee on Continuing Medical Education of the AAP as well as chairing the first planning group that established the DB:PREP review course. He has previously served on the Nominating Committee for SDBP and is currently a member of the Sub-Board of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Kelly’s research and publication has been primarily in the areas of hearing impairment and learning and attention problems. More recently he has focused on earlier identification of children with developmental problems, improved linkage to services, and multidisciplinary systems of health care delivery. He has also secured endowment funding to establish a fellowship program in DB Pediatrics in Greenville.
Statement of Goals for the Society
As a member of SDBP for over 20 years I have benefited immensely from the Society both personally and professionally. I am honored to be nominated for this position and feel a strong responsibility to do my bit to further the services and success of SDBP. As our field continues its developmental journey we are faced with new opportunities and challenges. A recent Journal of Pediatrics article again highlighted the national demand for our subspecialty with over 86% of primary care pediatricians reporting a need for more developmental-behavioral pediatric services. At the same time many fellowship training spots are unfilled. Health care reform legislation poses promise and risk. We need to establish ourselves as indispensable and define our own benchmarks for integrated service delivery and reimbursement. The Society is a beacon of interdisciplinary collaboration and we need to build on that foundation in supporting the training and professional development of the multiple disciplines we represent.
As clinicians we should continue to explore solutions for efficient provision of interdisciplinary services and generate the necessary outcomes data. As teachers we bear responsibility for educating our primary care colleagues in the promotion of healthy child development and in preparing future specialty practitioners in this field. An immediate challenge is to engage prospective candidates at the earliest levels of their training and convince them of the rewards of helping children with developmental and behavioural challenges and their families. Research in the neurosciences has crossed the threshold of dramatic advances and support at both the basic science and translational level is critical to the future of our field.SDBP is looked to nationally and internationally for leadership in these areas and my goal as president is to deliver it.
Member-At-Large
Nancy Roizen, MD
Dr. Roizen is the Director of the Division of Developmental-Behavioral
Pediatrics (DBP) and Psychology at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Roizen is the Director of the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) and Psychology at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Roizen grew-up in New England and received a BS and MD from Tufts University. She completed an internship in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, a residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, fellowships in both Developmental Pediatrics (DP) at the Kennedy-Krieger Institute (Johns Hopkins), and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Child Study Unit at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Roizen has always been committed to the mission of education and has been the director of the fellowship program in DBP at Rainbow for the last 5 years. She has also been a member of the Executive Board of the AAP Section on Children with Disabilities(92-98) and the Behavioral Science Test Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners (94-97). At SUNY Upstate Medical University (01-05), she was the Vice-Chair of Education for the Department of Pediatrics. Administratively, at the Cleveland Clinic(05-07), she was the Chief of DP and Rehabilitation and the Chief of the Medical Staff at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation. At the University of Chicago (85-01), she was the Chief of DP. Clinically, Dr. Roizen has cared for children with the spectrum of developmental and behavioral problems and, in each location, she has reached across disciplines to develop programs. Academically, she has published more than 100 articles, chapters, and books. Her research has been mainly in the developmental-behavioral aspects of Down syndrome, congenital toxoplasmosis, velocardiofacial syndrome, and ADHD. She is a member of the ABP and board certified in Pediatrics, DBP, and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
Statement of Goals for the Society
As a member of the SDBP for more than 20 years, I have watched it grow and develop. I would bring to the Board a broad group of educational, administration, academic, and clinical skill sets from working in various positions and capacities as a faculty member, division chief, vice chair of a department, and chief of the medical staff. In addition, I have been a DBP in five states (California, Maryland, Ohio, New York, and now Ohio) with different cultures and evolving early intervention and other systems of care.
As a member of the Board of Directors my goals would be to enable our members to improve in every way that they see a need to whether it be locally or nationally. We need to reach out and find ways to be inclusive. We need to push and use innovative ideas to develop quality systems of care and teaching, energize advocacy efforts, and work with each other as well as institutions locally, nationally and internationally.
Member-At-Large
Beth Wildman, PhD
Dr. Wildman is a Professor of Psychology at Kent
State University, where she coordinates training graduate students
in clinical child and pediatric psychology. She conducts clinical
research collaboratively with pediatricians at Akron Children's Hospital and is involved with research training of their DBP Fellows. Her research focuses on improving primary care pediatricians' identification and management of behavior problems and reducing pediatric unintentional injury by improving parenting and supervision skills.
Dr. Wildman, her graduate students, and pediatrician collaborators consistently present their research at the Annual Meetings of SDBP. Dr. Wildman has encouraged her graduate students to become involved in the Society, resulting in one of her graduate students volunteering as the Student Liaison to facilitate involvement of psychology trainees in SDBP. Within SDBP, Dr. Wildman has reviewed submissions for the Annual Meeting and for the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She has served on the Nominating Committee and is a member of the SDBP Research Committee. Beginning with her graduate training at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dr. Wildman has been interested in and committed to inter-/multi-disciplinary collaboration in all of her professional endeavors: delivery of clinical services, training, and research.
Statement of Goals for the Society
SDBP has become my professional home and I am honored to have been nominated to serve on the Board. SDBP’s commitment to multidisciplinary respect and collaboration in training, clinical service, research, and advocacy are core strengths of our Society. In addition to assuring the financial stability of SDBP, we need to continue to support and expand efforts to educate colleagues and the public on both the importance of and ways to promote healthy development of children and families. Continued encouragement of collaborative research that applies basic science to clinical problems will enhance our prestige and credibility. These efforts need to capitalize on empirical evidence and the expertise of SDBP’s membership on the genetic, biological, and environmental influences on development. I am particularly interested in facilitating and expanding SDBP's efforts to involve and recruit trainees from different specialties and disciplines with the goal of building successful collaborations for training young professionals and facilitating clinical research and supervision of trainees. Among the ways to reach other professionals is to continue and expand efforts to promote communication and collaboration with other professional organizations with similar goals, dissemination of evidence-based research and clinical practice to trainees and practitioners through the journal and attendance at the Annual Meetings and Workshops. Additionally, our reputation and influence will be enhanced with continued and expanded public education and advocacy activities.
