Gary Maslow, MD, MPH, the Gorrell Family Distinguished Professor in Children’s Psychiatry, received the 2025 Outstanding Academic Service Award from the North Carolina Pediatric Society.
One of the organization’s 2025 “Pediatric Excellence Awards,” this award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding efforts to improve the health and wellness of all children in our state. Maslow was selected for his leadership in academic collaboration to promote child health in the community.
“Dr. Maslow’s dedication to children’s mental health is truly remarkable. He has worked with the team of the N.C. Psychiatry Access Line [NC-PAL] to offer more ways for practices across the state to offer additional mental health services to their patients and expand coverage for all North Carolina children,” said Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD, FAAP, immediate past president of NCPeds and chair of the NCPeds Board Relations Committee.
“Dr. Maslow ... has worked with the team of the N.C. Psychiatry Access Line to offer more ways for practices across the state to offer additional mental health services to their patients and expand coverage for all North Carolina children.”
— Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD, FAAP
Maslow, who serves as co-director of NC-PAL, was recently named the Gorrell Family Distinguished Professor in Children’s Psychiatry. He is co-director of the Division of Child and Family Mental Health and Community and medical director of pediatric psychiatry services. He also holds appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and the School of Nursing.
He has been a primary care pediatrician at Duke since 2011 and currently provides care for children and young adults with a range of medical, developmental, and psychiatric conditions at Duke Children’s Pediatric Primary Care at North Duke Street in Durham.
Maslow focuses on promoting positive youth development for children with chronic conditions such as diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, and intellectual/developmental disabilities. He has been instrumental in developing and evaluating health systems innovations to improve mental health care within primary care settings. He has also made significant contributions to the field of adolescent and young adult transitions to adulthood, most recently through Duke’s ATLAS program.
In addition to his work as a clinician and researcher, Maslow has mentored and taught dozens of junior faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, trainees, and students. From 2013 to 2019, he served as the program director for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship.
To learn more, read the award press release from NCPeds.