Our Leadership

Gerard Rabalais, M.D., M.H.A.

Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Rabalais received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Orleans before going to Louisiana State University for medical school. He remained in Louisiana for his residency at Charity Hospital of Louisiana at Tulane Medical Center. After completing his residency, Dr. Rabalais moved to Colorado and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Colorado. In 1987, Dr. Rabalais came to UofL. He served as chief of pediatric infectious diseases and director of the pediatric vaccine clinical trials unit from 1997 to 2006. After completing a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Colorado, he accepted the post of vice chairman for administrative affairs in the Department of Pediatrics. In July 2004, he was named acting chairman of pediatrics and acting chief of staff of Kosair Children’s Hospital. In July 2006, he was named permanent chair of pediatrics and chief of staff of Kosair Children’s Hospital. One month later he was named chairman of University Physician Associates at the School of Medicine.

Dr. Rabalais has three children and is a trumpet player in his church's orchestra.

Kimberly A. Boland, M.D.

Program Director
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Kimberly Boland was raised in Louisville. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and returned home to earn her medical degree from the University of Louisville. She then moved to St. Louis where she completed her residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at Washington University. After finishing her chief residency, she worked as a hospitalist for two years in a community hospital in St. Louis and then went on to complete her Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at Washington University. Dr. Boland again returned home to Louisville, where she spent five and a half years as a Pediatric Intensivist and filled the roles of Director of Resident Education for the Critical Care Division and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Director for one year at the University of Louisville. She left to pursue a career in general pediatrics for three years, but was drawn back to the academic world in order to be part of the excitement and energy of the educational realm. She returned to the University of Louisville as the Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Program at Kosair Children’s Hospital and quickly became involved in resident education with subsequent appointment to an Associate Program Director role.

Dr. Boland currently serves as the Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program here at the University of Louisville. She also is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Kentucky Chapter of the AAP and is involved in student education as a facilitator for the Interdisciplinary Clinical Case course. She is involved with many task forces and committees within the University and Hospital such as Faculty Forum, Resident and Student Education Committees and a member of a new Accelerate Curriculum Pilot Project committee for the Medical School. Her most recent focus in the residency has been development of innovative curricula in communication, evidence-based medicine and crisis management scenarios.

Dr. Boland is married to an Irishman and they have one red-headed daughter.

Sara Multerer, M.D.

Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

After graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, Sara received her medical degree from Indiana University and then moved to Louisville for her pediatric residency training at University of Louisville. Upon completion of her residency, Sara was elected Richard S. Wolf Chief Resident for the program and also was a lecturer for the Department of Pediatrics. As Chief Resident, Sara served as the Chair of the Admit Express Unit Task Force where she led the working group to revise the policy for “direct admits” at Kosair Children’s Hospital. Additionally, she served on several committees, such as the Medical Executive Committee, Asthma Task Force and Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Resident Education Committee. At the end of her tenure as Chief Resident, Sara stayed on the faculty at the University of Louisville as a pediatric hospitalist with special interests in patient safety and quality improvement. As such, Sara has led several efforts in these areas, such as serving as Chair of the Private Pediatrician-Resident Task Force, for which she organized a group of both residents and community pediatricians with the goal of improving the relationship between these two parties, as well as chairing a subcommittee dedicated to standardizing the location and improving signage of emergency respiratory equipment for the Patient Safety Committee.

In her role as Associate Program Director, Sara's focus is the development of resident-driven quality improvement projects as well as the oversight and implementation of creative online learning technologies.

Sara is married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and they are proud parents of twin girls.

Michelle Stevenson, M.D., M.S.

Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research Director, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr. Stevenson received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Indiana University in 1993. She graduated in 1997 from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Returning to her hometown, she completed her residency in Pediatrics at the University of Louisville in 2000. She finished her fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2003. While her husband Brad finished a Ph.D. in finance at the University of Cincinnati, she stayed on as a PEM attending in Cincinnati, obtaining a Master of Science in Molecular Epidemiology in Children’s Environmental Health. After serving in the emergency department at Akron Children’s Hospital for three years, she returned to the University of Louisville in 2008. Her clinical and research interests include acute asthma and bronchiolitis management, as well as the epidemiology of skin and soft tissue infections and appendicitis. Dr. Stevenson thoroughly enjoys teaching, especially utilizing Evidence Based Medicine principles. In her role as Assistant Program Director, Dr. Stevenson has oversight of the senior scholarly projects and the unique Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum.

She spends most of her free time with her husband and three children: Emma (age 15), and twins Allen and Mya (age 6).

John Roberts, M.D.

Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
Vice Chair of Medical Education
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. John L. Roberts is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education for the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the Vice Chair of Medical Education in the Department of Pediatrics. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics with a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received his M.D. from the University of Louisville in 1976, was a Research Fellow in Neonatology at the Washington University School of Medicine and was a Clinical Fellow in Neonatology, also at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Roberts has more than 20 peer reviewed publications, 3 non-peer reviewed publications, and has served on the writing teams for two book chapters. During his career, he has served on teams that were awarded more than 85 research and/or education grants. As Vice Chair of Medical Education, Dr. Roberts has an advisory role to the Program Director, Clerkship Director and Chairman.

Dr. Roberts is married to Dr. Jan Smith Roberts, an adult cardiologist, and they have five children.