Zuckerman Named Recipient of 2015 Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award

The Federation of Pediatric Organizations (FOPO) has selected Boston University School of Medicine Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics Barry S. Zuckerman MD as the 2015 recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award. Dr. Zuckerman will receive this award April 25 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Diego.

FOPO is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to promote optimal health for children by uniting the efforts and expertise of its member organizations to accomplish shared goals.

Created in honor of St. Geme to recognize a pediatrician who is a role model for others to emulate as a clinician, an educator, and/or an investigator, recipients have had a record of broad and sustained contributions to pediatrics that have had or will have a major impact on child health. Most importantly, the award recognizes those individuals who have “created a future.”

Zuckerman is recognized for his tireless efforts to understand how social and environmental factors adversely impact children, and to create practical, scalable and sustainable tools that allow pediatric practitioners to intervene to improve developmental outcomes. In addition to his role at BUSM, Zuckerman is Professor of Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health. He has authored 250 publications, more than 130 of them peer-reviewed, and edited 12 books, including a leading book on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, now in its third edition. His leadership and mentorship lead to the creation of Medical Legal Partnerships for Children, HealthLeads, Reach Out and Read and Healthy Steps, all of which focus on improving outcomes in our most vulnerable patients. This body of work has changed the face of pediatric practice, particularly in the places that care for our most vulnerable children.