HIV prevention and treatment programs reduced the number of African children dying from AIDS from about 360,000 to 50,000 annually [UNAIDS, 2020]. Kline conceived and implemented the Pediatrics AIDS Corps, a Peace Corps-like program to promote the scale up of African AIDS care and treatment programs. Since 2005, the Pediatrics AIDS Corps has trained more than 52,000 African health professionals and dramatically enhanced capacity for the treatment of many other life-threatening diseases. In 2009, Kline succeeded the late Dr. Ralph D. Feigin as the J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Texas Children's Hospital. Under Kline's leadership, Baylor's Department of Pediatrics grew from 590 faculty members to more than 1200, the largest in the U.S. Kline left Baylor in February 2021 to pursue a new leadership opportunity in New Orleans with Children's Hospital New Orleans, Tulane University and Louisiana State University. In 2013, City of Houston mayor Annise Parker proclaimed October 18, 2013 as Dr. Mark W. Kline Day for his contributions to pediatrics and global health. Scholarship Kline has been the recipient of more than $150 million in funding for research and training from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Agency for International Development. He has authored more than 250 scientific articles and textbook chapters and has presented more than 300 national or international lectures on topics in child health, infectious diseases and global health. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Rudolph's Pediatrics, one of the world's most widely recognized medical textbooks. Selected awards and honors Who's Who in America, 2004-2015. Annual Vision Award, AIDS Foundation Houston, 2006 Distinguished Faculty Award, Baylor College of Medicine, 2007 Ronald McDonald House Charities Medical Award of Excellence, 2007 Jefferson Award for Public Service, 2009 Millie and Richard Brock Award of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2009 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Public Service, Jefferson Awards Program, 2010 E.H. Christopherson Lectureship Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2010 HIVMA Clinical Education Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2010 First Annual Humanitarian Award, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program, 2013 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Baylor College of Medicine faculty American pediatricians Baylor College of Medicine alumni