Mark L. Batshaw, M.D., is currently the "Fight for
Children" Chair of Academic Medicine and Chief Academic Officer at
the Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, D.C.,
and serves as Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics and Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs at The George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Batshaw is also Director of the Children's Research Institute at
CNMC. Dr. Batshaw is a board-certified neurodevelopmental
pediatrician who has treated children with developmental
disabilities for more than 25 years. Before moving to Washington in
1998, he was Physician-in-Chief of Children's Seashore House, the
child development and rehabilitation institute of The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, and held the W.T. Grant Chair in Child
Development at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Dr. Batshaw is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and of
the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Following
pediatric residency in his native Canada at the Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto, he completed a fellowship in developmental
pediatrics at the Kennedy Institute (now called the Kennedy Krieger
Institute) and The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in
Baltimore.
He remained a professor at Johns Hopkins for 13 years and won the
prestigious Alexander Schaffer teaching award while there. A Joseph
P. Kennedy, Jr., Scholar and recipient of major grants from the
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), Dr. Batshaw is director of the NIH-funded Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at CNMC
and continues to pursue his research on innovative treatments for
inborn errors of metabolism, including gene therapy. Dr. Batshaw
has published more than 130 articles, chapters, and reviews on his
research interests and on the medical aspects of the care of
children with disabilities. Dr. Batshaw was the founding editor in
chief (1995 - 2001) of the journal Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews. He is also the editor
of When Your Child Has a Disability: The Complete Sourcebook of
Daily and Medical Care, Revised Edition (Paul H. Brookes Publishing
Co., 2001), and Handbook of Developmental Disabilities (co-edited
with Kurtz, Dowrick, & Levy; Aspen Publishers, 1996). Dr. Batshaw
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a member
of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Inherited
Metabolic Disorders, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the
Society for Developmental Pediatrics. Dr. Batshaw's investment in
the well-being of children was first sparked by his parents, both
of whom were social workers; his father was involved in modernizing
the juvenile justice system in Quebec. Dr. Batshaw's wife, Karen,
is a social worker in the field of international adoptions. His
children also continue this legacy of making a difference: His
daughter, Elissa, is a special education teacher and co-authored
the chapter on special education in this edition of Children with
Disabilities; his son Michael is a social worker; and his younger
son, Drew, has overcome the challenges of
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder to graduate from Vassar
College and enter business school.
Louis Pellegrino, M.D., is a pediatrician who
completed subspecialty training in Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics at
the University of Rochester, New York. Following his fellowship
training, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine as an assistant professor and was Medical
Director of the Cerebral Palsy Program at The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia and Children's Seashore House. He is now Assistant
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has
written extensively on the subject of cerebral palsy and maintains
cerebral palsy as a primary focus in his clinical, teaching, and
academic pursuits, working in a variety of medical and educational
settings in collaboration with many different professionals who
devote themselves to the care of children with developmental
disabilities. Dr. Pellegrino is board-certified in pediatrics and
is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member
of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of
Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, and the Society for
Developmental Pediatrics. He lives in Hillsborough, New Jersey with
his wife, Joan, and daughter, Elizabeth.
"With the eighth edition, Children With Disabilities continues to be the one resource you need to understand the topic...[A] veritable encyclopedia in one book." --Robin McWilliam, Ph.D.
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