The Pediatric-CL SIG began as an interest group at the last meeting of the Midwest Conference on Child Health Psychology held in Milwaukee in 2010. In 2011, Suzanne Thompson, PhD was lamenting with Michael Roberts, PhD about the lack of pediatric psychology inpatient consultation-liaison (CL) resources. Dr. Roberts mentioned that SPP would be developing SIGs and suggested that Dr. Thompson develop a CL SIG. Dr. Thompson recruited Bryan Carter, PhD to join her as co-chair, and the CL SIG held its first meeting at the 2011 National Conference of the Society of Pediatric Psychology in San Antonio, TX. SIG members expressed how pleased they were to have the opportunity to network and collaborate with fellow psychologists working in inpatient hospital settings. The group enthusiastically outlined needs and a wish list of proposed initiatives to promote high quality clinical care, teaching, and research. From this meeting, the Pediatric Practitioner Resource Bank for Inpatient Pediatric CL was born and a collaborative national CL survey project was initiated. Drs. Carter and Thompson remained Co-Chairs until 2014 and 2015, respectively.

In order to address the growing needs and interest of the membership, at the SPPAC 2014 meeting in Philadelphia the SIG was restructured. The Chair position terms were staggered and additional leadership roles serving two year terms were added in Intervention Projects (Amy Williams, PhD), Research Projects (Kevin Tsang, PsyD), Secretary/Membership (Megan Shelton, PhD), Webmaster (Bryan Carter, PhD) and Student Representative (Courtney Craig, PhD). As almost the entire leadership group was about to turn over, to establish continuity the Intervention and Research Projects Subcommittees were combined to create the Research, Intervention, and Outcomes Committee at the 2016 SPPAC in Atlanta. Staggered two year terms were established as Co-Chairs of the committee moving forward. As a testament to the growth of the CL SIG, in addition to maintaining a web-based clinical resource bank and publishing results of the collaborative national CL survey, by 2016 the SIG had produced several clinical handouts to enhance inpatient care; started a CL student mentorship program; produced twice yearly newsletters; provided poster awards at SPPAC; and presented a CL symposium and CL workshop at SPPAC meetings.