All of us at Abilities United congratulate our Board President, Dr. Heidi Feldman on receiving this prestigious award.
AAP press release
NATION'S PEDIATRICIANS RECOGNIZE LOCAL DOCTOR
NEW ORLEANS
Heidi M Feldman, MD PhD, FAAP, of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
and Stanford University received the C. Anderson
Aldrich Award at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National
Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, La., October 20-23, 2012.
The
annual award recognizes achievement in the field of child development.
This award is named for Dr. C. Anderson Aldrich, one of the founders of
the AAP, whose greatest contributions were in the modern practice of
infant feeding. Dr. Aldrich and his wife Mary co-authored a book
entitled Babies are Human Beings in which he urged flexible schedules
for feeding, sleeping and toileting. In 1944, Dr. Aldrich
founded the Rochester Child Health Institute in Rochester, Minnesota,
devoted to research on the development of infants and children and to a
program of delivering childcare to an entire community.
Dr.
Feldman holds the Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Professorship of
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University School of
Medicine and serves as the Medical
Director of the Mary L Johnson Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Clinical Programs at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She was on the
faculty at the University of Pittsburgh for 22 years before moving to
Stanford University in 2006. Her research interests
focus on language development in children with medical and neurological
conditions that put language learning at risk. She is currently
combining neural imaging techniques and behavioral measures to
understand language, cognition, and reading outcomes of children
born preterm. She has published over 120 articles and chapters. She
has demonstrated that deaf children of hearing parents who are not
exposed to sign language create a manual system to communicate with
others. She has demonstrated the resilience of language
after unilateral brain injury. As part of a large team, she documented
that placement of tympanostomy tubes for chronic ear infections does
not improve developmental outcomes in speech, language, thinking skills
or reading.
Dr.
Feldman has won awards for her teaching, recognizing her creativity in
organizing courses for undergraduates and interdisciplinary professional
students and her enthusiasm
in educating medical students. She was one of the editors of
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics,
Fourth Edition, the premier text in the field.
Dr.
Feldman has held several leadership roles at the national level: Past
president of SDBP and subsequently co-Chair of the Membership Committee;
Program Chair of the Section
of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and a member of the Committee on
Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health of the American Academy
of Pediatrics; chair of the Sub-Board for Developmental-Behavioral
Pediatrics of the American Board of Pediatrics.
She is also a dedicated yoga enthusiast and yoga teacher who has offered inclusive yoga classes to children.
The
AAP is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric
medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to
the
health, safety and well- being of the nation’s infants, children,
adolescents and young adults.
Submitted by Wendy Kuehnl, Marketing Director, Abilities United
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