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American Academy of Pediatrics
New Jersey Chapter
3836 Quakerbridge Road
Suite 108
Hamilton, NJ 08619

Phone: 609-842-0014
Fax: 609-842-0015

Michael Segarra, MD, FAAP
President

Fran Gallagher, MEd
Executive Director
fgallagher@aap.net

Bert Mulder
Director of Membership & Events
bmulder@aapnj.org

Lisa Murison
Membership & Events Coordinator
lmurison@aapnj.org

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Welcome to the American Academy of Pediatrics, NJ Chapter!

Welcome to the official Web site of the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Jersey Chapter. Our active Chapter represents over 1,500 pediatricians from across the beautiful and diverse state of New Jersey.

The New Jersey Chapter of the AAP is dedicated to ensuring optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

Here you will find information regarding many of the AAP NJ opportunities for participating in PCORE quality improvement programs, events, resources and publications including our quarterly newsletter, The NJ Pediatrician.

Parents, please visit our Resources Link for important and useful information.

Chapter members, Residents, and Medical Students, please explore the site and discover the variety of opportunities available to you through your AAP NJ Chapter. 

Friends and Partners wishing to sponsor, exhibit and collaborate, please check out the Events section of the Web site.

NJ Chapter Members: Did You Know?

Every Thursday, the AAP NJ sends out an e-newsletter with up to the minute H1N1 information, conferences and teleconferences, CME opportunities, resources, practice management information and more - all tailored to fit the needs of NJ MD's. Do you receive this important resource? If not, click here to take advantage of this member benefit!

  
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Meg Fisher, MD, FAAP

It has been my honor to be appointed to the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, a Federal committee charged with advising and making recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on issues relating to the operation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The Commission has approved the following paragraph; we want this information to be distributed widely. Please be sure that your partners and staff are aware of this program; consider having the information readily available for all of your patients and families.

Vaccine administrators and other care providers should be mindful of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a "no fault" Federal program that can provide significant funding to children and adults seriously injured by covered vaccines.  A "table" of the specific vaccines and the injuries presumed to be compensable can be found at www.hrsa.gov/Vaccinecompensation/table.htm.  

Other vaccine-related injuries may be proved legally under certain circumstances.  Although you do not need an attorney to file a petition for compensation, the program provides for payment of legal expenses at no cost to the injured party.  Basic information on the program can be found at www.hrsa.gov/Vaccinecompensation/.  The Clerk of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ((202) 357-6400) will provide a list of experienced attorneys upon request.  A three year statute of limitations on filing a claim for injury and a more complex statute of limitations on vaccine-related death make it imperative that patients or their parents or representatives be informed promptly of the program by medical care providers whenever the provider believes that the possibility of a vaccine-related injury exists.  Any suspected adverse vaccine event should be reported to VAERS (http://vaers.hhs.gov/).

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