Department Chairs

  • Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD (1998) – Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. Previously, Director, Leukemia Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Harvey J. Cohen, MD, PhD (1973) – Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford.
  • J. Devn Cornish, MD, PhD (1981) – Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics. Currently, Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Emory.
  • Paul H. Dworkin, MD (1976) – Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
  • Eric Eichenwald, MD (1987) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Univ of Texas, Houston.
  • Erwin W. Gelfand, MD (1970) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Hospital Denver.
  • Jonathan D. Gitlin, MD (1981) – Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University.
  • Catherine M. Gordon, MD (1994) Pediatrician-in-Chief, Texas Children’s Hospital. Previously, Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
  • Margaret K. “Peggy” Hostetter, MD (1978) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Chair Emeritus, Department. of Pediatrics, Yale.
  • Meredith Irwin, MD (1994) – Chief of Pediatrics Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CA.
  • Isaac S. “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD (1990) – Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Director, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Informatics Program.
  • Bruce Korf, MD, PhD (1983) – Chair, Department of Genetics, Alabama.
  • Philip J. Landrigan, MD (1970) – Professor & Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mt Sinai.
  • Nobutake Matsuo, MD (1971) – Chairman Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
  • John F. Modlin, MD (1974) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth.
  • E. Richard Moxon, MB BCh (1972) – Professor and Chair, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford.
  • Richard “Rick” J. O’Reilly, MD (1973) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute.
  • Stuart H. Orkin, MD (1975) – Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
  • Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD (1985) – Neurologist-in-Chief and Chair, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard.
  • DeWayne M. Pursley, MD (1987) – Neonatologist-in-Chief, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.
  • Lawrence M. Rhein, MD, MPH (1999) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center.
  • David S. Rosenblatt, MD (1976) – Chair, Department of Human Genetics, McGill.
  • J. Philip Saul, MD (1985) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD (1984) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Rochester.
  • Alan L. Schwartz, MD, PhD (1979) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University, St Louis.
  • Gary A. Silverman, MD, PhD (1987) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, St Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University in St Louis.
  • Charles F. Simmons Jr, MD (1983) – Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
  • Mitchell J. Weiss, MD, PhD (1991) – Chair, Department of Hematology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis.
  • Christopher B. Wilson, MD (1975) – Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, Previously, Interim Director, Global Health Discovery, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.