Perri Klass, MD — pediatric medicine (infectious disease)
Courtesy Reach Out and Read National Center
As a pediatrician, writer, wife, and mother—Dr. Perri Klass (b. 1958) has demonstrated how medicine is integral to the health of families and communities, and how doctors themselves struggle to balance the conflicting needs of profession, self, and family. With her love of literature and her involvement with literacy, Dr. Klass is acutely aware of the importance of reading to personal and professional success. As medical director of Reach Out and Read, a national program which makes books and advice about reading to young children part of every well-child visit, she encourages other pediatricians to foster pre-reading skills in their young patients.
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