Pediatric Subspecialty Physician Workforce: A Growing Crisis
The Children’s Specialty Care Coalition (CSCC) hosted a virtual legislative briefing on the recently released commissioned report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled, The Future Pediatric Subspecialty Physician Workforce: Meeting the Needs of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. The briefing introduced the report’s key findings and policy recommendations, highlighted the experience of physician experts in California on the challenges of physician recruitment and retention, provided insight into families’ experiences accessing care, and introduced what policymakers can do to drive change.
Additional resources that were shared during the briefing:
- CSCC Member Fact Sheet (PDF)
- CSCC Provider Survey
- Family Access Survey
- NASEM Report
- Op-ed: The Salary Problem in Pediatric Subspecialties
Briefing Recording
Speakers
Akilah Weber, MD
California State Assemblymember (D-La Mesa)
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Erin Kelly
Executive Director, Children’s Specialty Care Coalition
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Sherin Devaskar, MD
Executive Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA; Physician-in-Chief, Mattel Children's Hospital; Assistant Vice Chancellor of Children's Health, UCLA Health; Executive Director of the UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute
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Carlos Lerner, MD
President, CSCC; Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, UCLA; Jack H. Skirball Chair in Pediatrics, Vice Chief of Staff, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
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Jenny McLelland
Parent Advocate
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John Moua, MD
Chief of Pediatrics, UCSF Fresno; Vice-Chair, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF; Associate Center Director, Cystic Fibrosis Program, UCSF Fresno; Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
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James Stein, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Ford Theodore Miller Murphy Chair in Surgical Oncology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Professor of Clinical Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC
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Craig Swanson, MD
Medical Director of Children's Services, Sutter Medical Center
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