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Letter writing is first step toward improving children's lives

¹ President, American Academy of Pediatrics

Letters and commentaries are an important and often effective way of highlighting issues of importance to children, to the Academy and of course for the writer. As AAP President, I write my share of commentaries and letters to the editor. In the past few months, letters have been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Pediatrics, and the New England Journal of Medicine. As President, I also write to government, media, businesses, other medical organizations, as well as individuals who are largely AAP members. These letters often are joint products of a wonderful team who include AAP members, staff, Executive Committee members, the AAP Washington office, and our Elk Grove Village Office of Public Relations. One of our Executive Committee inside jokes is that the Academy is blessed with president after president who write brilliant letters on an extraordinary range of subjects (thanks team!).