Course Faculty

KUPPER A WINTERGERST, MD, FAAP

Dr. Kupper Wintergerst was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.  He completed his undergraduate degree at Bellarmine University and attended medical school at the University of Louisville.  He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Florida and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Stanford University.  In 2006, he moved back to Louisville to take a position as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Pediatric Endocrinology and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012.  He and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of three children. Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, Dr. Wintergerst cares for patients in the clinical setting, as well as being heavily involved in teaching and clinical research.  In addition to his general clinical duties, he is Co-Director of the Children’s Metabolic Bone Center, Academic Advisory Dean to the University of Louisville, School of Medicine, and Director of TrialNet Type 1 Diabetes Studies.  Adding to his research and publication experience in critical care endocrinology and artificial pancreas algorithms, he is currently involved in a variety of projects, including long-term follow-up of neonatal thyroid disease and new therapies for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

KATHLEEN BETHIN, MD, PhD, FAAP

Kathleen Bethin, MD, PhD earned her MD and PhD from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine.  She completed her Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.  Dr. Bethin was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis before coming to Buffalo in 2008.  She is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo/ Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo (WCHOB). She is Program Director for the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship at the University at Buffalo.   Dr. Bethin holds board certifications in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes from the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Sub-board of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes. Dr. Bethin is active in research and clinical care at the Diabetes Center at WCHOB and the Division of Endocrinology.  She is the local principal investigator of the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange.  She is a member of the PES/AAP-SoEn Patient Education Committee.

ELLEN LANCON CONNOR, MD, FAAP
 
Dr. Ellen Lancon Connor is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. A transplanted Cajun, she received her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she also completed her pediatrics residency in 1991. Dr. Connor is Board certified in Pediatric Endocrinology and completed her fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at the University of Florida in Gainesville before joining the UW faculty in 1994.

Dr. Connor’s research interests include adolescent polycystic ovary syndrome, genetic differences in risk for hepatic steatosis and metabolic syndrome in obese children, and development of teaching/resource technology for adolescents in diabetes clinics.  She is Committee Chair of the Pediatric Endocrine Society Obesity Committee, a member of the joint PES-AAP Education Committee effort to create patient education materials for endocrinology, a member-at-large to the Executive Board for the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and Director of the UW pediatric residents’ obesity elective.  She is also Co-Director of the UW Adolescent Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Clinic.  Her teaching interests include growth, puberty, PCOS, diabetes mellitus, and thyroid disorders.

TERESA DURYEA, MD, FAAP

Dr. Teresa Duryea completed her pediatric residency training at Baylor College of Medicine and her fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University.  In 1991, Dr. Duryea returned to Houston and joined the faculty as a preceptor for the Texas Children’s Hospital Residents’ Primary Care Group, the pediatric continuity clinic for Baylor College of Medicine.  In addition to teaching pediatric residents and students while providing care to patients, Dr Duryea has an interest in conducting clinical research.  Her research interests include: developmental outcomes in children from high-risk, disadvantaged, or culturally diverse backgrounds; medical education; domestic violence; and the comparison of clinical practices or new therapeutic modalities in the management of common pediatric problems.  She serves as the Clinic Chief for the Residents’ Primary Care Group and the Associate Section Head for Clinical Affairs of the Academic General Pediatrics Section. On a national level, Dr. Duryea has served as Region Co-Chair for the Academic Pediatric Association and as a Regional trainer for Reach Out and Read.  She is currently investigating the effectiveness of utilizing the American Academy of Pediatrics Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice (EQIPP) modules in residency education.  She is also a member of the AAP’s PREP-Self Assessment Editorial Board. 

JEFFREY GRILL, MD, FAAP

Jeff earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Sciences from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and then went on to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for his M.D. degree, which he received in 1994. Upon graduation, he entered active duty service in the United States Navy and completed a one-year transitional internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego. In 1996, he underwent a six-month course in diving medicine, submarine medicine, and radiation health and graduated an Undersea Medical Officer and Navy Diver. He was assigned to Commander, Submarine Group SEVEN in Yokosuka, Japan where he spent three years as the Submarine and Diving Medical Officer for the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. After completing his tour overseas in 1999, Dr. Grill returned to civilian life and began his residency in Pediatrics at the University of Louisville, graduating in June 2002. After serving as Chief Resident for one year, then as a private practice pediatrician for two years, Jeff returned to U of L as a Pediatric Hospitalist in June 2005. He now enjoys teaching and caring for patients as Director of the “Just for Kids” Hospitalist Service at Kosair Children’s Hospital and serving as Chief of the Division of General Inpatient Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Jeff and his wife, Shannon, have two sons, Harrison, age 6, and Connor, age 3, and a one year old daughter, Isabel.

QUENTIN VAN METER, MD, FAAP

He is a Pediatric Endocrinologist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where he has practiced for the past 21 years.  He received his B.S. from the College of William and Mary and his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia.  He joined the U.S. Naval Medical Corps through the Uniformed Services Medical Scholarship program and remained on active duty for twenty years, during which time he completed his Pediatric Internship/Residency at the Naval Regional Medical Center, Oakland, a U.C. San Francisco-affiliated program.  He was sponsored by the Navy for his Pediatric Endocrine Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins.  He was the Chairman of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Residency Program Director at the Naval Hospital Oakland when he retired.  He then moved to the Atlanta area where he practiced both pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology in a multispecialty private practice for the next twelve years.  He then established his own full-time pediatric endocrine practice where he has continued to work since then.  He is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at both Emory University and Morehouse Schools of Medicine.  He is actively involved in clinical research with human growth and precocious puberty and has established a unique, effective program to combat pediatric obesity.  He is on the Board of Directors of the American College of Pediatricians and Camp Kudzu, a regional diabetes summer camp.

He joined the American Academy of Pediatrics as a Candidate Fellow in 1976, and became a full fellow in 1978.  He was a founding member of the Section on Uniformed Services and served as Chairman of the Uniformed Services West Chapter of the AAP.  He became a member of the Georgia Chapter of the AAP and served as Legislative Chairman and Chapter Newsletter editor.  He developed the Georgia Children’s Agenda, which was recognized by both houses of the Georgia State Legislature and endorsed by the Governor.

Reviewers

Mark Danney. MD, FAAP

AAP Staff

Laura Laskosz, MPH
Linda O’Brien
Lori Morawski, MPH, CHES

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
Paul Miles, MD, 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: Growth Surveillance and Linear Growth Failure course was produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This course is supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk Inc.