Dr. Rani Gereige Appointed to AAP Committee on Continuing Medical Education

Published on: 6/7/2017

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).

About Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Where Your Child Matters Most ™ (2025)

For 75 years, Nicklaus Children's has stood as a beacon of hope for children and families across the state of Florida and beyond. Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children serving close to 70 percent of children in the Miami metropolitan community. In addition, Nicklaus Children's offers care within NCH North Hospital in Naples, Jupiter Medical Center's De George Pediatric Unit and select Baptist Health Hospital pediatric emergency units. The hospital and its network of more of nearly 35 outpatient care locations offer lifesaving care in in Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. These outpatient locations include an array of urgent care, pediatric primary care, and subspecialty care centers and are either hospital-based or outpatient locations under Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC (NCPS). Providing a pipeline of future physicians and groundbreaking research, Nicklaus Children's is an academic and clinical affiliate of Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children's is home to centers of excellence including the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children's Neuroscience Institute and Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute. The 325-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, with many programs routinely ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's also includes a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary with over 40 specialties, and an ambulatory surgery center.

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