AAP Chapter 3

Welcome to the New York Chapter 3 Website

The American Academy of Pediatrics, founded in 1930, unites pediatricians throughout the Americas to ensure for all young people the attainment of their full potential for physical, emotional, and social health. To this end, the Academy dedicates its resources to professional education, advocacy for children, representation of pediatricians, public education, access to health care, and service to children.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is composed of over fifty Chapters, organized into ten regional Districts. Whereas most of these Districts cover multiple states, District II consists solely of New York State and serves as the statewide focal point for its three Chapters. Chapter 3 is comprised of the New York City Boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and the upstate counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester.

Chapter 3 currently has over 1,600 members, representing pediatricians and pediatric specialists.

Louis Z. Cooper, MD, FAAP, past president (2001-02) of the AAP, has been award the AAP's 2012 Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award in recognition of a pediatrician who has made long-term notable contributions to pediatrics nationally in teaching, patient care and /or clinical research.
Chapter 3 is one of the recipients of the AAP 2012 Award of Chapter Excellence.
The following Special Achievement Awards were received in 2011:
New York Chapter 3
	- for the accomplishments of the chapter's Breastfeeding Committee CME teleconferences and activities of the Legislative Task Force.
Susan Marie Vierczhalek, MD
	- for her tireless efforts to encourage breastfeeding, promote the advantages of breastfeeding, and collaborate with stakeholders across the state to make breastfeeding the nutritional approach of choice for newborns and mothers in the region.

News: Dr. Lance Parton presents a plaque to Dr. Andrew Racine in recognition for his years of service as Chapter President.

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