Dr. Rani Gereige Appointed to AAP Committee on Continuing Medical Education

Published on: 06/07/2017

Rani Gereige, MD, FAAP, Director of Medical Education at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, has been appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Committee on Continuing Medical Education (COCME).

Dr. Gereige, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, will serve a six year term on the committee which provides coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the AAP’s continuing medical education (CME)/continuing professional development (CPD) program to ensure quality and consistency in content development, design and delivery of educational activities. As a committee member, Dr. Gereige will ensure educational programs remain on the leading edge of pediatric continuing medical education and will recommend new initiatives based on evidence-based CME research.

In addition to overseeing the medical residency and fellowship training programs and continuing medical education courses at Nicklaus Children’s, Dr. Gereige serves as Clinical Professor, Volunteer Faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Florida International University College of Medicine. He also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Pediatric Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

About Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Where Children Matter Most ™ (2024)

Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children. With more than 850 physicians, including over 500 pediatric subspecialists, the hospital and its network of outpatient centers and offices serve close to 70% of children in the Miami market. The only hospital "where your child matters most™,” Nicklaus Children's is home to the region's most advanced Kenneth C. Griffin Surgical Tower, and its centers of excellence Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children’s Orthopedics, Sports Health and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children’s Brain Institute and Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute. The Nicklaus Children's Hospital's Transfer Center, Nick4Kids, and LifeFlight are responsible for transporting and saving close to 5,000 lives a year. Our 307-bed hospital, which is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, has many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.