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Gail B. Slap, M.D., M.S.
Gail B. Slap, M.D., M.S. is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and Associate Chair for Fellowship Training, Department of Pediatrics, The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Slap received her B.A., M.D., and M.S. degrees from the University
of Pennsylvania. She completed clinical training as an internal
medicine resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
and adolescent medicine fellow at The Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia and research training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She served on
the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982-1998 as
Assistant, Associate, and full Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics,
with secondary appointments in the Center of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics and the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Care
Economics of the Wharton School. She was Director of Adolescent
Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from 1983-1998
and founded the Craig-Dalsimer Training Program in Adolescent Medicine
in 1986. Slap spent sabbatical years as a visiting faculty member
at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University in 1990-91
and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University in 1997-98. From 1998 to 2006, Dr. Slap was the Rauh Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Chair for Adolescent Health Programs, and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine; Department of Pediatrics; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; and Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dr. Slap has served as President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine;
Chair of the Council on Medical Specialties and Regent of the American
College of Physicians; and appointee to numerous committees of the
Institute of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, American Board of Internal Medicine,
and American Board of Pediatrics. Her research has focused on predictive
modeling of adolescent health outcomes, adolescent utilization of
health care, and the prevention of adolescent risk behaviors. In
addition to her work as an investigator, Dr. Slap has received numerous
awards and honors as a clinician (e.g., Best Doctors in America)
and teacher (e.g., Lindback Award, Parents Choice Award).
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