Pediatric Links to the Community Receives Dyson Foundation Grant
Reprinted from the Upstate Peditrician Newsletter
Raymond J. Cassady, MD, FAAP, Editor

September 2000

The University of Rochester Pediatric Program "Pediatric Links with the Community" has received' a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Dyson Foundation to: develop this resident advocacy training program. The program developed by AAP Fellows Drs. Jeffrey Kaczorowski and Laura Jean Shipley sends pediatric residents into homes, schools, and community agencies to visit underserved children. The grant will be used to expand the program, which currently sends first year residents into the community to serve two-week rotations in community agencies. The program was developed to help residents understand the issues that affect children's health. Dr. Anne Dyson, president of the Dyson Foundation and herself a pediatrician and AAP Fellow, said that the goal of the programs is to improve the health of all children in the community by getting pediatricians "to look outside the walls of their offices."