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Creating the Developmental Home: Bringing Pediatrics to the Early Childhood Community

Creating the Developmental Home: Bringing Pediatrics to the Early Childhood Community

Early childhood developmental research, prevention science and developmental neuroscience converge to thrust forward exciting opportunities to address the needs of young families, infants and young children in new ways. This conference brought together all the disciplines that surround families to examine the role of the pediatric medical practitioner in creating a Developmental Home for young children. The Developmental Home promotes expanding the role for pediatricians within the health and early childhood community. The strengths of pediatrics can be brought to innovative community efforts when pediatric professionals become “one of the team.”

Helen DuPlessis, M.D., MPH, is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Edward L. Schor, M.D., vice president of the Commonwealth Fund, leads the Fund’s Child Development and Preventive Care program. Dr. Schor, a pediatrician, served as medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health, Division of Family and Community Health before joining The Commonwealth Fund in 2002. He has a special interest in the social determinants of child health and family functioning. He is editor of the book Caring for Your School-Age Child.