The Millie and Richard Brock Lecture and Award in Pediatrics
Difficult life experiences with one of their own children gave Millie and Richard Brock a particular sensitivity and commitment to the needs of all children, especially the underserved. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Section on Pediatrics of The New York Academy of Medicine, the Brocks demonstrated their desire to enhance the care of children by helping to create this annual lectureship. This event exemplifies their wish to recognize the Academy’s significant contribution to the education of the pediatricians in whom we entrust the medical care of our city’s children.

2005 Lecturer and Awardee:
Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Foster Care Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester

Moira Szilagyi MD, PhD, has been providing primary health care services for children in foster care since 1986, and has been Medical Director of Foster Care Pediatrics since February 1990. Dr. Szilagyi received her doctoral degree in biochemistry from the University of Rochester in 1980, after which her interest in people diverted from the cellular-molecular level to the whole person. She completed medical school in 1984 at the University of Rochester, after helping to establish the first Ethics in Medicine course at that institution. During residency, Dr. Szilagyi had the opportunity to work in a variety of settings, gravitating toward those sites serving the needs of children at risk because of poverty. She also had the opportunity to create an elective in developmental pediatrics that enabled her to observe healthy children and children with disabilities in a variety of settings.

In 1986, a moonlighting position at the local health department introduced her to the world of the child in foster care; since then she has focused her attention on these children Dr. Szilagyi is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, and was instrumental in starting the hospital’s child abuse program, REACH, and teaches in the resident continuity clinic. Dr. Szilagyi chairs the AAP District II Task Force on Foster Care Health Care, which recently published the second edition of Fostering Health: Health Care for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care. She continues to work closely with local, state, and national professionals on issues related to the health of children in foster care. Dr. Szilagyi is a member of the Healthy Foster Care America task force at the AAP and a similar task force at the CWLA. She continues to teach about cross-systems collaboration and quality improvement for children in foster care. She is currently interested in creative strategies to address the mental health of children and families whose lives touch the foster care system, in improving the quality of care through setting national standards, health care financing, health care case management and educating the next generation.

Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity participants will be better enabled to: Identify creative strategies to address the health of children and families involved in the foster care system. Create cross-collaborative solutions to serve children in the foster care system.

Accreditation
The New York Academy of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The New York Academy of Medicine designates this continuing medical education activity for a maximum of 1 Category One credit toward the Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spends in the educational activity.

Disclosure Policy
The New York Academy of Medicine relies upon invited faculty participants to provide educational information that is objective and as free from bias as possible. In this spirit, and in accordance with these guidelines, faculty participants are required to indicate any commercial relationship that might be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest. At this time members of the faculty have no relationships to disclose.

For more information on this program, go to The Millie and Richard Brock Visiting Professorship and Lectureship in Pediatrics, or contact:

Edward J. North
phone: 212-822-7204
fax: 212-822-7338
e-mail: enorth@nyam.org

> Register for this event
> Events Calendar