📢Calling all my peds advocates and #tweetiatrician faves! Is your passion: 🌍climate 🧡firearm injuries 🍎hunger 📚education 🏩care access 🗳️voting or any health issue impacting kids?! We now have an organization to unite our fight ➡️ @Their__Future Theirfutureourvote.org

Breaking News…oh, wait, this just continues to become a same news different day kind of topic. But it’s definitely not the guns.

Celebrating Star Wars day with some of the best rockstars in pediatrics. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Pediatrician & former AAP President Moira Szilagyi shares the importance of implementing trauma-informed care in practices. Trauma can affect children’s lifelong health and social well-being but there are things pediatricians can do to help. Learn more: aap.org/tic.

Good luck to the incredible U.S. Women's National Soccer Team at the World Cup! You represent the best of the best, and I’ll be cheering for you all the way.

Long article but a very worthwhile read. Bottom line: Millions of people, including many children, have lost Medicaid. Most still qualify for coverage. They lose medication, hospital coverage and their doctors. This is NOT ok. We need to fix it. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07…

Simultaneously enjoying vacation and introducing Robert Gallup to the world of NHL hockey in person. #GoAvsGo

If there is one slide that sums up #AAPAdvocacy it is this. Caring matters. Advocating for kids matters. Voting matters. It all matters. American Academy of Pediatrics

Truly no better feeling in the world than being back with my advocacy people - back in the American Academy of Pediatrics boat!! #AAPAdvocacy AAP Peds Trainees Benjamin D. Hoffman, MD, FAAP

Children who have lost Medicaid in the “Unwinding “- 4.8 million as of last week. That’s 4.8 million kids who potentially just loss access to healthcare. Joan Alker at #AAPAdvocacy We need to do better. Much better.

The best part of #AAPAdvocacy (and all American Academy of Pediatrics conferences) is meeting new friends! #AAPSOECP

“It is not enough to feed someone. It is important to make sure they are fed well.” — Sec Thomas Vilsak, US Dept of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack thank you for your advocacy for children! American Academy of Pediatrics #AAPadvocacy

On behalf of almost 300 pediatricians at #AAPAdvocacy (and thousands more throughout the country), providing adequate nutrition for children is NOT a partisan issue Kim Reynolds.

Thank you Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D. for representing #pediatrics and #healthcare as the FIRST pediatrician in Congress. “If not you, who? If not now, when?” #AAPAdvocacy

Beautiful day on Capitol Hill to #putkids1st with Iowa AAP! #AAPAdvocacy

Thank you to @repMMM, Ashley Hinson, Congressman Zach Nunn, Joni Ernst, Chuck Grassley, and all your staff for meeting with Iowa AAP to talk about taking care of Iowa’s kids and keeping them safe! #AAPAdvocacy #putkids1st

Thank you for helping us #putkids1st in Iowa to ensure they remain safe as they explore their world within online spaces! #AAPAdvocacy

This coming from a trained pediatric ICU doc…shows how critical and life-saving these “basic” skills are and why it’s important to re-authorize the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC). #AAPAdvocacy #HR6960 #S3765