New Honors for Dr. Centers

Shawn K. Centers DO ,MH, FACOP has been named a "Top Pediatrician" in San Diego, California by an international group of pediatricians from the International Association of Pediatricians (IAP). This organization represents over 40,000 pediatricians from around the globe.

Members chosen, as "Top Pediatricians" are hand selected through extensive research, physician and patient surveys and invitation is granted only to those doctors who have made significant differences in their respective hospital, practice or community. 

Each year the IAP pediatricians are listed in The Leading Physicians of the World publication. It is here where our selected pediatrician's professional biographies are featured, and then distributed to thousands of medical professionals, universities, health care institutions and consumers from around the world. Inclusion into the International Association of Pediatricians is a tribute to a pediatricians professional and academic achievements. 

Dr. Centers has also recently been designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American Pediatrics Council and a is Lifetime member of the American Council of Pediatrics Specialists. Dr. Centers is among 300 U.S. and Canadian medical school professors and clinical faculty chosen annually for this high honor. Distinguished Fellows are chosen based on a record of exceptional academic and clinical excellence in their specialty, a dedication to teaching and clinical education, and who have consistently demonstrated a high quality of ethical and humanitarian medical care to patients. Fellow physicians based on exemplary records of excellence, compassion, humanitarianism, and traditional nominate distinguished Fellows values, which exemplify the true qualities of the "noble physician " in their pediatric practice. 

Dr. Centers Shawn K. Centers, a board certified pediatrician and internationally known expert on osteopathic pediatrics, nutrition, and natural medicines, a former Pediatric Chief Resident for the Children's Hospital of New Jersey, and is currently the Clinical Director of the Osteopathic Center for Children where he has practiced for the last 10 years. Dr Centers is lead author for the pediatrics section the latest edition of Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine, the official textbook of the American Osteopathic Association and a required text at all U.S. Osteopathic Medical schools. Dr. Centers holds academic appointments at Touro University-California-College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University-Las Vegas- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Royal College of Medicine Melbourne, and the College of Osteopathy of Italy- Bologna. 

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