Pediatric Annals Announces New Editor-in-Chief
September 2, 2025
THOROFARE, NJ – SLACK Journals is excited to announce Tyler K. Smith, MD, MPH, FAAP, a board-certified general academic pediatrician at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, as the new Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Annals.
Dr. Smith currently serves as the Program Director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Kansas School of Medicine. Her career began with earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at Hampton University. She went on to earn her medical doctorate at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, South Carolina and completed pediatric residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She continued her medical education with completion of the General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Smith to this role, and know that she will bring a fresh outlook to Pediatric Annals, a journal with a long and storied history,” shares Tony Schiavo, Senior Vice President of SLACK, Inc. “I am certain that Dr. Smith’s energy, vision, and experience will help introduce Pediatric Annals to a new generation of clinicians and researchers, while at the same time maintaining the journal’s traditional high standards.”
For more than 50 years, Pediatric Annals, a monthly online-only review journal, has been dedicated to providing pediatricians and other health care professionals with an interest in pediatrics with the vital information required for optimal patient care. In an ever-changing specialty, the journal provides practitioners with issues focused on a single topic of interest. Pediatric Annals is a trusted resource for specialty knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric issues and disorders.
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