NASPGHAN 2015 Distinguished Service Award.

Cop accepted J School of and repri ins Scho mi.edu). uropean S rition and patology, a 00000000 athleen ‘‘Kay’’ J. Motil, MD, PhD, embodies the K spirit of the NASPGHAN Distinguished Service award. She has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the children and built a distinguished career within the realm of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. She completed her undergraduate education in biology at Seton Hill University followed by a Doctorate of Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1973. From 1973 to 1976, she finished pediatric residency training at McGill Univerpital followed by a Pediatric sity/Montreal Children’s Hos Gastroenterology and Nutrition fellowship between 1976 and 1980 at Harvard under Richard Grand, MD, Nevin Scrimshaw, MD, and Mary Ellen Avery, MD, including completion of a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the tutelage of Vernon R. Young, PhD, and Hamish N. Munro, MD. She served as an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard 1980 to 1981, and then joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in 1981 where she has continued to the present. Kay is well recognized as an insightful and compassionate clinician researcher and a champion of nutrition education. She has authored 80 peerreviewed publications and more than 60 chapters including manuscripts on protein metabolism, growth in children with inflammatory bowel disease, Rett syndrome, and lactation. She has received grant support from various sources including the United States Department of Agriculture, International Rett Syndrome Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She has served as a peer reviewer for more than 20 journals and grant reviewer for more than 12 funding agencies within the United States, Canada, and abroad. She served as Vice Chair (l994–2000) and Chair (2000–2004) of the institutional review board at Baylor College of Medicine. She