Kate Peterson Stanley, MD, FAAP
Dr. Stanley is a co-founder of NFSG and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her medical studies at the University of Iowa and her pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship training at the University of New Mexico. After practicing clinical neonatology for eight years, she joined the Division of Neonatology at the University of Michigan in 2011.
Due to her interest and expertise in physician coding, she was appointed as the Revenue Cycle Billing Compliance Officer for the Department of Pediatrics where she oversaw provider coding compliance and participated in institutional coding education. She became the Medical Director of Revenue Integrity for the Children’s and Women’s Hospitals at Michigan Medicine in 2019 where she developed the Clinical Documentation and Revenue Integrity Program. This program aims to enhance facility revenue streams by improving clinical documentation, care management processes and resource utilization. She joined the AAP Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Coding Committee in 2018 to assist her peers with physician coding education and advocacy. She is also a University of Michigan Medical Education Scholar and served as the Associate Neonatology Fellowship Program Director. Her academic interests in neonatology include the use of human milk in the NICU and medical education curriculum development. In her spare time, she is a proud track & field and soccer Mom, dogwalker and New Mexican chef for her family.
Eric Horowitz, MD, MHA, RD, FAAP
Dr. Horowitz is a co-founder of NFSG and a Senior Staff Scientist in the Department of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, and recent Chief of Neonatology at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, NY. He completed his medical studies at SUNY Upstate Medical University, pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and fellowship a Duke University Medical Center. In addition to this training, he also completed his Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 2016 and was inducted into the Delta Omega Honor Society for Public Health.
During his over 15-year clinical career, he has worked in academic, corporate, and private group practices covering military, rural, and urban NICUs. The variety of clinical models and staffing approaches he experienced led him to begin his research career exploring the neonatologist workforce. These clinical and research experiences have contributed to several publications, and helped him to be appointed as a member of the AAP Committee on Pediatric Workforce and made a Co-PI for the AAP Survey of Sections. To make these efforts to better describe professional expectations more transparent and accessible, he created the Describing Our Careers Interactive Summary Initiative (DOC IS In), which can be access at www.aap.org/docisin.