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).