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Editorial Board

The OPENPediatrics Scholar Editorial Board is a multidisciplinary group of health professions educators convened to help guide the editorial oversight for OPENPediatrics Scholar. Each editorial board member is expected to provide professional, independent advice and recommendations to help guide the consideration, review and publication of submissions to OPENPediatrics Scholar. This group has expertise in a wide variety of educational practices, scholarly endeavors, and faculty development in health professions education

Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editors

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Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH

Co-Director, OPENPediatrics
Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital Associate Professor in Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School

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Dennis Daniel, MD

Associate Director, OPENPediatrics 
Associate in Critical Care Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital 
Instructor of Anaesthesia  
Harvard Medical School

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Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc  

Co-Director, Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship 
Program Director, Complex Care Fellowship  
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School 

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Kelsey Miller, MD, EdM

Director of Medical Student Education
Associate Physician in Pediatrics
Division of Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital 
Co-Director, Interprofessional Education
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School 

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Kelly Wills, MD, MMSc

Director of Curriculum Development, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation 
Associate Program Director, Boston Combined Residency Program 
General Pediatrician, Primary Care 
Continuity Clinic Director, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center 
Boston Children's Hospital 
Instructor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School 

Editorial Board Members

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Ifunanya Agbim, MD

Department of Pediatrics 
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Children's Wisconsin

Assistant Professor  

Medical College of Wisconsin

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Nina L. Alfieri, MD, MS  

Associate Program Director, Lurie Children's Pediatric Residency Program 
Continuity Clinic Director, Lurie Children's Pediatric Residency Program 
Division of Advanced General Pediatrics & Primary Care
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago 
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Marc Auerbach, MD MSci 

Co-Director of Knowledge Management, EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center, 
Co-Director of Education, HRSA Pediatric Pandemic Network  
Director, Pediatric Simulation, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation 
Professor of Pediatrics and of Emergency Medicine
Yale University

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Jennifer Benjamin MD, MS  

Director for Technology CRIS (Center for Research Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education) 
Co-Director Faculty College, Department of EIT (Education Innovation and Technology) 
Complex Care Clinic, Academic General Pediatrics  
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine

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Miya Bernson-Leung, MD, EdM

Associate Director of Continuing Education, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation
Child Neurology Residency Program Director

Associate in Neurology
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

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Priti Bhansali MD, MEd

Director, Children’s Academy of Pediatric Educators (CAPE) 
Director of Scholarship and Faculty Development, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 
Children’s National Hospital 
Professor of Pediatrics 
The George Washington University School of Medicine

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Rahul Damania, MD

Co-host, PICU Doc on Call Podcast

Associate Staff, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital
Director of Academic Advising, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Northeast Ohio Medical University

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Michele DeGrazia PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN 

Nursing Content Lead, OPENPediatrics
Director of Nursing Research, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

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Catherine Diskin, MBBCh BAO, MRCPI, MSc   

Co - Educational Lead, Complex Care Program 
Paediatrician, Paediatric Medicine and the Complex Care Program
Assistant Professor, Dept of Paediatrics
University of Toronto

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Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc

Assistant Dean, Scholarly Teaching and Learning
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine

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Carl Gustaf S. Axelsson MD, MPhil MMSc

Researcher in Medical & Neurosurgical Education 
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Eric Gantwerker, MD, MMSc(MedEd), FACS, AFAMEE  

Pediatric Otolaryngology
Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Northwell Health 
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell 

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Emily J Goodwin, MD 

Associate Director of Medical Student Education
Beacon Education Director
General Academic Pediatrics, Beacon Program Pediatrician
Children’s Mercy Kansas City 
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Kansas University Medical Center

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Michael Healy, EdD 

Health Professions Education Researcher, Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Surgery
Harvard Medical School

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Jill O’Hara, MD, MPH 

Assistant in Critical Care Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
Instructor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School

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Rachel A. Umoren, MBBCh, MS 

Associate Professor & Associate Division Head for Research, Neonatology 
Medical Director of Inpatient Telehealth
Seattle Children’s Hospital 
Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Health & Healthcare Simulation Science 
University of Washington & Seattle Children's Hospital 

Trainee Editorial Board Members

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Kaitlyn Order, MD

Clinical Fellow
Pediatric Nephrology
Boston Children's Hospital

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Ezra Schwartz, MDCM, MS, MMS 

Integrated Vascular Surgery Trainee,
Montefiore Medical Center
Editor, Audible Bleeding Podcast
MMS, Medical Education
Harvard Medical School

Editorial Office

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Julie Ecker, BA, CAPM

Intellectual Property Specialist, OPENPediatrics

Boston Children's Hospital

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Fallon Walsh, MHA

Program Coordinator II, OPENPediatrics

Boston Children's Hospital

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