Dr. Racine was born in New York City, attended Harvard College and subsequently spent a year in Tanzania before returning to complete his MD, PhD (economics) at NYU and his pediatric training at the Boston Children’s Hospital.  He is currently the System Senior Vice-President of the Montefiore Health System and Executive Director of the Montefiore Medical Group.  He holds appointments as Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) and was previously a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Manhattan.  His research collaborations at the NBER have involved the impact of a variety of public health programs on child health outcomes.  He has also been heavily involved in child health advocacy at the local and national level with the American Academy of Pediatrics having served on the AAP’s national Committee on Child Health Financing and Chair of the National Task Force of Poverty and Child Health. Dr. Racine was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the NBER, sits on the Board of the New York Academy of Medicine, and is currently the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics