The first PAG Fellowship in the USA was started at Boston Children’s Hospital by Dr. Donald Peter Goldstein in 1983.  Fellows included Drs. Odette Pinsonneault, Jacques Mailloux, Joan Wenning, Anne Davis, Karen Kozlowski, Lauren Brown, Linda Laras, Marc Laufer, Barbara Gardner and Barbara O’Connell. The Fellowship was discontinued in 1993 and was reestablished in 2018.

Dr. Abby Berenson applied for a one year fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr.  Susan Pokorny - 1988. Link to her application letter.

1991 - Fellowship program at University of Louisville, in Louisville, KY, with Dr. Sanfilippo.  Dr. Paige Hertwick was his first fellow.  He had one fellow per year until he moved to Pittsburgh to be chairperson of the Department of Ob/Gyn at Allegheny General Hospital.

Dr. David Muram ran a fellowship for a time in Memphis, TN, at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital. Dr. Claudette Shepherd was a fellow at this program.

Dr. Diane Merritt ran a fellowship at Washington University, St. Louis, MO.  Her first fellow was Dr. Lesley Breech - 1998 to 2000. Fellows from Washington University.

Fellowship programs now number 18 between Canada and the USA. Here are all of the NASPAG Fellowships plus their inception dates:

• Baylor - 2004
• Boston Initial fellowship: 1980-1993, Restarted fellowship: 2018
• Colorado 2022
• Cincinnati 2003
• Toronto 1998
• National Institutes of Health/Children's National Health Center NIH/Children’s National started through MedStar/Children’s in 2010 (first fellow was Lauren Damle) and transitioned to NIH 2019
• Nationwide Children’s Hospital - Columbus 2023
• Louisville, KY July 1 1990
• Stanford 2021, first fellow started 2022
• Phoenix July 2016
• Tufts Initial fellowship 1993-1996. Restarted fellowship in 2018
• Birmingham, AL 2013
• Calgary 2019
• Michigan 2011
• Kansas City 2011
• Ottawa First fellow was Dr Nicole Todd, July 2013-June 2014
• Austin Dell Medical School 2023, first fellow 2024
• Washington University 1998

NASPAG List serve possibly initiated in 2007-2008 when Dr. Eduardo Lara-Torre was the Website Committee Chair. Foster a confidential site where members could discuss cases and elicit opinions from colleagues. 

Dr. Susan Kaufman began as moderator in 2010 when the list serve became more formalized and controlled with disclosure language holding NASPAG non liable for the correspondence                        

In 2017, the Website committee took over as moderator. 

Development of the NASPAG Fellowship Family Tree - 2014

Dr. Mary Anne Jamieson, MD and Yael Pecchioli, BScH developed a “family tree” tracking the growth of fellowship trained PAG providers. 

The family tree showed how one mentor might train multiple trainees and how trainees later became mentors. The tree which contained 379 “family members” also represented the many specialties involved in PAG 

The tree would be much larger if additions were made to include years from 2014 to 2024