Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Wilma T. Gibson Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah’s Spencer F. Eccles School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at Intermountain Children’s Health in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his medical degree and doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, completed his residency and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts, a Master’s in Theology from Catholic Distance University and a Master’s in Public Administration from University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He holds subspecialty certifications in Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics from the American Board of Pediatrics. He is also a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) within the American Association for Physician Leadership, completed the Patient Safety Certificate Program from the Quality Colloquium, and is certified in medical quality (CMQ) as designated by the American Board of Medical Quality. Dr. Giardino served for 6 years as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Health Finance. Since May 2022, after an appointment by the comptroller of the United States, he has served as a commissioner on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC).
His academic accomplishments include published articles, chapters, and textbooks on child abuse and neglect, contributions to several national curricula on the evaluation of child maltreatment, and presentations on a variety of pediatric topics at both national and regional conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the 23rd and 24th editions of Rudolph’s Pediatrics which is McGraw-Hill's flagship pediatric text which has been continuously published since 1898. He has completed service as a board member for several national and regional boards, including Prevent Child Abuse America, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities, and the U.S. Center for SafeSport. Previously, Dr. Giardino served for 12 years on the National Review Board for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he chaired the Research Subcommittee, was elected Vice-Chair, and introduced the concept of high reliability as a quality improvement approach to work toward the response, and ultimately the prevention, of child sexual abuse in the church environment. He is a recipient of the Fulbright & Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award at Baylor College of Medicine and the 2013 Healthcare Advocacy Award from Doctors for Change in Houston, TX.
