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• Jeffrey Goldhagen, MD, MPH

  Jeffrey Goldhagen, MD, MPH 
  Program Medical Director, Community PedsCare
  Professor and Chief, Division of Community Pediatrics, UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville

  Jeffrey Goldhagen, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville and chief of the division of community pediatrics. He has experience in urban, community and maternal and child health; medical education; the core functions of public health; health care administration; and in children’s rights and child advocacy. He founded the residency programs in pediatrics and international child health and pediatrics and urban child health at Case Western Reserve University, and the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative at the University of Florida. He also served for 13 years as the director of public health for Duval County.

  Dr. Goldhagen has been in leadership positions in multiple American professional societies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, and he is the co-founder of the Society for Equity in Child Health. He received the 2011 American Academy of Pediatrics Job Lewis Smith Award, which recognizes one academy member annually for long outstanding service in community pediatrics.Dr. Goldhagen is also the recent recipient of the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida/Neviaser Family Professorship in Pediatric Palliative Care.

• Kelly C. Komatz, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAAHPM

  Kelly C. Komatz, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAAHPM
  Associate Medical Director, Community PedsCare
  Assistant Professor, UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville
  Pain and Palliative Care Consult Service, Wolfson Children's Hospital

  As associate medical director of Community PedsCare, Dr. Kelly C. Komatz provides medical oversight of the interdisciplinary team who address the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the child’s illness. She serves as a consultant to the patients’ primary care physicians in the community.

  Dr. Komatz is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, and is board certified in pediatrics. She also is board certified in the medical subspecialty of Hospice and Palliative Medicine through the American Board of Pediatrics. This certification indicates a special knowledge and skills to prevent and relieve the pain and suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses.

  Dr. Komatz is a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She recently was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has been with Community PedsCare for six years, and has served in Jacksonville as a pediatrician since 1991.

• Susan H. Krieger, MD

  Susan H. Krieger, MD

  Associate Medical Director, Community PedsCare
  Associate Medical Director, Community Hospice of Northeast Florida
  Assistant Professor, UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville
  Pain and Palliative Care Consult Service, Wolfson Children's Hospital

  Dr. Susan H. Krieger joined Community PedsCare as associate medical director of Community PedsCare in December 2010. She provides medical oversight of the interdisciplinary team and serves as a consultant to patients’ primary care physicians in the community. Having prior hospice experience, she also serves as associate medical director of Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. In addition, she is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville.

  Dr. Krieger is certified in pediatrics and internal medicine through the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine, and recently received certification in the medical subspecialty of Hospice and Palliative Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is among nearly 1,300 U.S. physicians, and 77 in Florida as of August 2010, who carry this certification.