Matthew David Garber MD, FHM, FAAP

Dr. Matthew D. Garber, MD, FHM, FAAP, to receive the 2017 Paul V. Miles (PVM) Fellowship Award, given annually to an accomplished mid-career pediatrician dedicated to improving the quality of health care for children. Dr. Garber is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine and a hospitalist at Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

The ABP recognizes Dr. Garber as one of the founders and the current medical director of the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics (VIP) Network, originally a grass-roots group for hospital medicine that is now part of the Quality Improvement Innovation Networks (QuIIN) at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Hospitalists in the network strive to improve hospital-based care for children, especially at small community hospitals and at children’s hospitals located within adult hospitals.