American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Jennifer Kasper Jennifer Kasper, MD
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians advocating children’s health. Jennifer Kasper is a practicing pediatrician in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The following is excerpted from testimony by Dr. Kasper for the American Academy of Pediatrics during a November 20, 2008, Senate staff briefing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.The American Academy of Pediatrics has been an endorsing organization of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child since 1989, when the UN General Assembly passed it. I am honored to stand before you as a representative of the AAP on…
