Course Faculty
BENJAMIN D. GOLD, MD, FACG, FAAP
Children’s Center for Digestive Health Care Attending Physician, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
Benjamin D. Gold, MD, is the latest physician to join Children’s Center for Digestive Healthcare, LLC. Prior to joining CCDHC, Dr. Gold had an outstanding academic career at Emory University where he had been a Marcus Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology, a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and the Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Dr. Gold was also Chief of Gastroenterology Service and Medical Director of the Gastrointestinal Diagnostics and Endoscopy Laboratory of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, at the Egleston hospital campus. Dr. Gold is a popular clinician with a loyal following of patients and is one of those rare “quadruple threats” that can do it all – research, teach, and provide excellent clinical care to his patients, as well as manage health care programs involving research or clinical-care delivery.
Dr. Gold received his medical degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, in 1987. He completed an internship and a residency in Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He completed his research fellowship at the Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children as a Medical Research Council of Canada Research Fellow.
Since arriving in Atlanta at Emory and the CDC in 1993, Dr. Gold vigorously pursued his research interests in H. pylori-associated gastroduodenal disease, particularly as it pertains to the pediatric population. He was actively involved in NIH- funded studies of the impact, transmission, and epidemiology of H. pylori in children living in the US, as well as in other countries and the impact of this gastric pathogen in underserved populations in the world (Bolivia, Guatemala, Tanzania). Dr. Gold is a national leader in the pursuit of critical questions regarding the epidemiology and pathobiology of acid-related diseases in children, in particular, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Dr. Gold continues to advance our understanding of pediatric GERD by undertaking and spearheading a number of multicenter, multinational, clinical, and epidemiological trials in children. His particular interest is in the natural history of GERD, its epidemiology, association with asthma (ie, extra-esophageal GERD), and risk factor characterization for disease prevention. Finally, Dr. Gold has pursued his interest in infectious causes of inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract by studying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the role of both infectious pathogens and normal flora in the gastrointestinal tract in modulating disease. He is a co-investigator of a national pediatric inflammatory bowel disease consortium, and he is working closely with the CDC to determine infectious etiologies of IBD.
Dr. Gold is married to his beautiful wife Wanda for over 24 years. He has two accomplished, talented children, Christopher who is attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and will be spending his senior year at Oxford University in London England, and, Bryana, an accomplished soccer player with national and international experience, who attends and plays soccer for Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
IVOR D. HILL, MB, ChB, MD, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC.
Dr. Hill received his medical training at the University of Cape Town Medical School and completed his training in pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. He was a Senior Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town Medical School until 1990 when he immigrated to the USA. He was appointed Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and then Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore before moving to Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1995. He is Chief in the Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and the Medical Director of the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is the author of 35 book chapters in Textbooks of Pediatrics and Gastroenterology and has over 75 publications in peer reviewed medical journals. His current clinical and research interests are in the fields of diarrheal diseases, malabsorption syndromes and celiac disease.
He has served on a number of committees within the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) and the Childrens’ Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation (CDHNF) and was the recipient of the NASPGHAN Distinguished Service Award in 2011. He served as Secretary/Treasurer for NASPGHAN and Chair of the Finance Committee. He was the Chair of the committee for development of the "Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Children" published in JPGN in 2005. He was Chair of the NASPGHAN Ethics Committee and Chair of the Professional Education Committee. He is an Executive Board member of the CDHNF and serves on the CDHNF Scientific Advisory Board for the Pediatric GERD Education Campaign and the CDHNF Scientific Advisory Board for the Celiac Disease Education Campaign. In the American Academy of Pediatrics he was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference and Exhibition Planning Group and is the Chair of the Committee on Continuing Medical Education. He also serves on the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board for Pediatric Gastroenterology.
JENIFER LIGHTDALE, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dr. Lightdale is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed fellowship training in outcomes research, first at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, and later at Harvard Fellowship in Pediatric Health Services Research. Dr. Lightdale received her Master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been on Clinical staff at Boston Children's Hospital in Gastroenterology since finishing her Gastroenterology fellowship there in 2001, and is currently the Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Division. Dr. Lightdale has received funding from the Risk Management Foundation, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and has held a Mentored Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (KO8 Hs013675) to investigate means of improving patient safety for children receiving procedural sedation. Her specific interest is in reducing unwarranted provider variation in treating pediatric GI conditions both to improve the quality of health care and to conserve health care resources.
Reviewers
Amy Manella
AAP Staff
Linda O’Brien
Lori Morawski, MPH, CHES
Debra Burrowes, MPH
Instructional Design
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EQIPP Planning Group
Gautham Suresh, MD, FAAP, Chair
David Gordon Bundy, MD, MPH, FAAP
Christopher A Cunha, MD, FAAP
Karen Kamachi, MD, FAAP
Suzanne Lazorick, MD, MPH,FAAP
Ramesh Sachdeva, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP
AAP Support
The mission of the Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN), a network of practicing pediatricians and their staff, is to improve care and outcomes for children and families. QuIIN does so by using quality improvement science to test practical tools, measures, and strategies for use in everyday pediatric practice, the child's medical home, as well as by informal assessment that provides practicing pediatrician perspective into evidenced based recommendations and tools for implementation.
The measures and data collection tools presented in this course were tested by the Quality Improvement Innovation Network. Comments and feedback were incorporated.
Commercial Support
The EQIPP: GER or GERD? Diagnosis and Management course was produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This course received no commercial support.