Shilpa Pai, MD, FAAP
Co-Director, Health Equity Thread
Director, Resident Education in Advocacy &Community Health
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Centering Champion – Pediatrics
Dr. Shilpa Pai is an associate professor of pediatrics Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is the founding director of the Resident Education in Advocacy and Community Health program, and co-director of the Health Equity Thread for the medical school curriculum. Clinically, she practices pediatrics at Eric B. Chandler Health Center, a federally qualified health center in New Brunswick, NJ.
Locally, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Princeton Mobile Food Pantry and the Princeton Family YMCA. On the state level, she is co-chair of the NJ American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant Health Committee, Special State Officer for the NJ WIC Advisory Council, and founder/co-lead of the NJ Pediatric Residency Advocacy Collaborative which brings together all 9 pediatric residency programs to improve residency training around advocacy and community health.
Nationally, she serves on the AAP Community Advocacy Resident Education National Leadership Group. Her research interests are adverse childhood experiences, social determinants of health, immigrant health and addressing health disparities.