Judith Palfrey, MD, (MA LEND) Is Appointed to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health by President Barack Obama

June 30, 2011

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Children's Hospital Boston announced that Judith Palfrey, MD, has been appointed to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health by President Barack Obama. Palfrey, who recently completed her term as president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), joins the group of 25 members or representatives from outside the federal government to work on issues including worksite health promotion, preventive medicine, public health education and community services. The Advisory Group will develop policy and program recommendations and advise the Council on lifestyle-based chronic disease prevention and management, integrative health care practices and health promotion.

Palfrey is the director of the Center for Global Pediatrics in the Department of Medicine at Children's and has worked at the institution for over 30 years, holding such key positions as chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. In addition to her role as former president of the AAP, Palfrey has acted as chair of the AAP Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, director of Building Bright Futures and national program director of the Dyson Community Pediatrics Initiative.

Palfrey is the recipient of the AAP's Milton Senn Award and the New York Academy of Medicine's Millie and Richard Brock Award. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.