2024 Spring Symposium

Steven M. Lazar, MD, MEd
Steven M. Lazar is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital and a practicing Child Neurologist and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities specialist with a clinical emphasis on high-risk fetal and neonatal neurodevelopmental management and outcomes. He is currently an associate program director of the Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University where his passion for medical education grew working the curriculum reform committee. Long interested in medical education, Dr. Lazar worked closely on resident education while in training and obtained a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction through the University of Houston. Currently, his academic, clinical, and educational intersect with research interests focusing on the betterment of education on neurodevelopmental disability across the spectrum of health professions education. 

Unoma Akamagwuna, MD
Dr. Unoma Akamagwuna, is an assistant professor in the H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Baylor College of Medicine. She received her bachelor’s degree from Xavier University of Louisiana and her medical school training at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  She completed a combined residency program at the University of Colorado and is quadruple-boarded in Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, and Brain Injury Medicine.  Dr. Akamagwuna is an American Pediatric Association Quality and Safety Improvement Scholar and makes use of Quality Improvement methodology to improve practice and care for her patients continuously. She is a current fellow in the Baylor College of Medicine Master Teacher Fellowship Program for faculty.   She completed anti-racism training through The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and is a certified yoga teacher trained in the principles of Raja Yoga.  She believes that equitable care for patients involves applying the principles of social justice to our healthcare practice.  She currently serves as Fellowship Director for the Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Program at Baylor College of Medicine.

Jennifer Benjamin, MD, MS
I am passionate about education and caring for children with complex needs and empowering parents to care for their children. I work in the complex care clinic which caters to children with special needs and in the pediatric resident clinic. My interests are curriculum development for resident education and to improve the care of children with special needs through thoughtful patient centered interventions and evidenced based approaches using engaging digital education.

Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc
Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc, is an academic pediatrician in the Complex Care Service at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her pediatrics residency training in Ottawa, Canada, and obtained her masters in medical education through Harvard Medical School. Dr. Huth is program director of the Complex Care Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and serves as Co-Director for the BCH Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship. She is Past Chair of the Complex Care Committee of the AACPDM, and Co-Chair of the Academic Pediatric Association Complex Care and Disability Special Interest Group. She co-hosts the Complex Care Journal Club podcast, which highlights practice-changing publications in the care of children with medical complexity. She has delivered various workshops on educational theory and technology, and is passionate about developing innovative educational interventions to improve the care of children with medical complexity and disability.

Alison Christy, MD, PhD
Dr. Alison Christy became Vice Chair of the History of Neurology Section of the American Academy of Neurology in 2021 and Chair in 2023, but has been interested in the medical humanities for many years, and engages with the history of women and diverse people in neurology on Twitter/X with the handle @OligoclonalBand. She is the clinical director of the pediatric neurology program at Providence Health and Services in Portland, and the director of the Providence Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology. She is deputy editor of the Journal of Child Neurology and makes podcasts for the journals, which can be found at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcn. She runs social media for the journal on X using the handle @JChildNeurol.With Dr. Zach London of the University of Michigan, she made card games featuring amazing women from the history of medicine, called Endowed Chairs: Neurology and Endowed Chairs: Pediatrics, available at NeurdGames.com - where you can also find Neurdle, a Wordle-like neurology game.