Henri Justino MD, CM, FRCPC, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP
Tammy I. Kang, MD MSCE FAAHPM
Executive Vice-Chair Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief, Palliative Care, Texas Children’s Hospital
Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP
Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH
Henri Justino, MD, CM, FRCPC, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP, received his MD degree at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and his pediatrics residency was at Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University. His pediatric cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships were at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. He is currently a Professor (Tenured) of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Director of Cardiology Innovation and Co-Director of the Mullins Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Texas Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include interventional catheterization in pediatric and adult congenital heart disease, and interventional therapies for vascular conditions such as Abernethy malformation, arterial and venous thrombosis including portal vein thrombosis, renal artery stenosis, and mid-aortic syndrome. His research interests include development of novel medical devices to treat congenital and structural heart conditions. Dr. Justino is also a co-founder of PolyVascular, a startup company developing a new type of polymeric heart valve for children and adults with congenital heart disease.
Henri Justino MD, CM, FRCPC, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP
Tammy I. Kang, MD, MSCE, held academic, clinical and administrative appointments at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine as the inaugural Chief of Palliative Care and Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in 2016. She is currently the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and holds the Jan E. Duncan Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care. Dr. Kang received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed pediatric residency and chief residency at the University of California San Francisco and a subspecialty fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
She is board certified in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is a national expert in the field of Pediatric Palliative Care. While at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she co-founded and led the hospital’s first interdisciplinary palliative care program as well as served as the inaugural Fellowship Director in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She was awarded numerous teaching and clinical awards including being selected as a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Master Clinician, an honor held by only six other physicians at that time. In 2012, she was elected to the prestigious academy of Master Clinicians for Penn Medicine and held the inaugural Justin Michael Ingerman Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Kang is a recognized leader nationally and internationally in pediatric palliative care. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a faculty member for the Center to Advance Palliative Care. She has published numerous peer reviewed articles, chapters and clinical reviews and has participated nationally in organizations dedicated to improving the care of children with serious illness.
Tammy I. Kang, MD MSCE FAAHPM
Executive Vice-Chair Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief, Palliative Care, Texas Children’s Hospital
Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. She holds primary appointments as Associate Professor, Head of Psychology, and Vice Chair for Behavioral Health in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She also holds the Shannon and Mark A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Pediatric Behavioral Health and serves as Chief of Psychology at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kaplow is Director of the Texas Children’s Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center, a designated Treatment and Service Adaptation Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, specializing in childhood trauma and bereavement. In this role, she oversees evidence-based assessment, treatment, and research with traumatized and bereaved youth and families, and develops and disseminates trauma-and bereavement-informed “best practices” to community providers nationwide. Following Hurricane Harvey, Dr. Kaplow established the Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program to provide evidence-based risk screening and interventions to children and families adversely affected by Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. She also helped to establish the Santa Fe Resiliency Center following the Santa Fe High School shooting, where her TAG Center staff provide evidence-based assessment and treatment to families who were impacted by the shooting. Dr. Kaplow received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke University and completed her internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She then completed specialized postdoctoral training in childhood trauma at the Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma at Boston Medical Center. A strong proponent of a scientist-practitioner approach, Dr. Kaplow’s primary research interests focus on the biological, behavioral, and psychological consequences of childhood trauma and bereavement, with an emphasis on therapeutically modifiable factors that can be used to inform interventions. Dr. Kaplow has published widely on the topics of childhood trauma and grief. She is lead author of the award-winning children’s book, Samantha Jane’s Missing Smile: A Story About Coping with the Loss of a Parent, lead author of Multidimensional Grief Therapy, co-author of Collaborative Treatment of Traumatized Children and Teens: The Trauma Systems Therapy Approach, and co-author of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents. She has served as a consultant to the DSM-5 Sub-Work Group on Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder, the ICD-11 Work Group on Disorders Associated with Stress (PTSD and Prolonged Grief), the National Academy of Medicine (Scientific Advisory Council on Child Death), and more recently, the Mass Violence and Children Working Group of the FBI.
Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Lawrence C. Kleinman is a pioneer and national leader in children’s health. He has a BA in History from Rutgers College and MD from Wake Forest University. Larry completed Pediatric residency at UConn and served four years in the National Health Services Corps, the first pediatrician to provide care in one of the most medically vulnerable neighborhoods in Connecticut. Dr. Kleinman went on to receive his MPH from UCLA, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. Considering it the ‘new advocacy’ he began to develop expertise in measuring and improving health care quality. His paper questioning the appropriateness of tympanostomy tube surgery in children was a landmark, and his paper on assessing the health of the homeless in the field was named Article of the Year by AcademyHealth. Dr. Kleinman joined Dr. Charles Homer at Boston Children’s Hospital, where they helped to pioneer child health services research and the measurement and improvement of quality care for children.
Dr. Kleinman spent a decade innovating as an entrepreneur: in Disease Management; as CMO for a venture funded medical informatics company, working with a community hospital system, and developing Quality Matters, Inc as a boutique consulting firm. Dr .Kleinman re-entered academia as Vice Chair for Research and Education of Population Health Science and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he created a Primary Care Research T32 program and was co-Director of the Masters and PhD programs in clinical investigation. He was PI for the CAPQuaM, a national consortium funded ($8M) as an AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Center of Excellence in the federal Pediatric Quality Measures Program. Dr. Kleinman also developed an innovative analytical method (regression risk analysis) that improves researchers’ ability to estimate the impact of an intervention. At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Dr. Kleinman was a leader in developing their initial CTSA, as co-Director of the Community Engagement Core, as Founding Director of the KL2 program, and as an investigator with both the informatics and BERD cores, for which he successfully competed for a supplement advancing methods in multi-morbidity research.
The opportunity to integrate child health services research and policy to benefit the strategic needs of a distressed community and the institutions that serve it led Dr. Kleinman to Case Western Reserve University and the UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where Dr. Kleinman directed the Center for Child Health and Policy (CCHP) and served as Frederick C Robbins, MD Professor in Child and Adolescent Health. He helped to lead efforts to integrate behavioral and primary care and to systematically consider social determinants of health in the planning and delivery of health care.
Dr. Kleinman returned home to Rutgers University in February 2019 to serve as Vice Chair for Academic Development and to help to develop a new Division of Population Health, Quality, and Implementation Sciences (PopQuIS) within the Department of Pediatrics at Rutgers RWJ Medical School. PopQuIS is the clinical home of primary care pediatrics at RWJMS. Dr. Kleinman also heads the Data/Survey Core for the Institute for Health, Healthcare Policy, and Aging Research of Rutgers University. Dr. Kleinman is PI for HRSA’s Maternal Child Health Measurement Research Network, a national collaboration that is a key component of the federal Maternal Child Health Bureau’s research agenda.
Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH