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Dr. Laub is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. She holds a masters in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Laub’s research interests include improving health care delivery models for children who are victims of abuse, utilizing clinical decision support tools to detect victims of maltreatment and improving recognition and response to drug exposed children. She has published multiple articles, book chapters and reviews on the subject of Child Abuse and Neglect.

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Dr. Nienow is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego and Clinical Director of Child Abuse Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Nienow has conducted research in prevention of maltreatment, patterns of disclosure in child sexual abuse as well as methods of testing for sexually transmitted infections in children. Dr. Nienow was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Counsel on Child Abuse and Neglect. In addition, she was chosen to serve as a subject matter consultant for the 2021 CDC STD Treatment Guidelines section regarding Sexual Assault or Abuse of Children. Areas of interest include prevention of maltreatment and reduction in implicit bias when reporting and responding to child maltreatment

Dr. Kuelbs is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSD and Chief Medical Information Officer at Rady Children's Hospital. She is interested in using health information technology and the electronic medical record to promote and improve care as well as to understand what factors influence health and healthcare. She is passionate about addressing the effects of mental health trauma and social determinants of health in the pediatric population. She believes that only by connecting health problems to the underlying social, personal and environmental factors can we truly begin to improve the health of our patients. She is committed to ensuring that health care providers screening for these events and working with patients who have experienced them, are able to do so in a trauma informed way.

Dr. Chambers is Chief of the Division of Environmental Science & Health, a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and Family and Preventative Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and co-Director of the Center for Better Beginnings. She is also Clinical Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD, Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the UCSD Department of Pediatrics, Director of the UCSD CTRI Center for Life Course Research, and Director of Clinical Research at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego.

Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego and Medical Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Physician Informaticist at Rady Children's Hospital. Her research is focused on how best to use emerging and/or pervasive health technologies to better deploy healthcare equitably from the lens of wellness, health promotion, prevention, patient engagement, and advocacy. Dr. Huang is currently engaged in a number of projects that promote improved health literacy and health information awareness among young people and their families in order to reduce the information gap between healthcare teams and patients to promote shared decision making and partnership in pediatric health

Dr. Ignacio is a Professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Trauma Medical Director at Rady Children’s Hospital. He retired from the U.S. Navy with over 20 years of experience and has extensive accomplishments in graduate medical education, global surgery, military medicine, and pediatric surgery.

Dr. Huang is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCSD and is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Her research investigates barriers to accessing care for families of hospitalized children whose primary language is not English and potential processes to improve these areas. Her interests include improving patient and family understanding of illness to increase informed decision-making, multidisciplinary approaches to patient care, and medical education