Spring 2007 Symposium
 On May 10th, 2006, the CCF partnered with NYC-Parents in Action, Inc. to host guest speaker, Mel Levine, M.D., who gave a lecture on "Young Minds Racing Against Time: How Developing Brains Struggle to Meet Growing Demands."

Spring 2006 Symposium
 On May 10th, 2006, the CCF partnered with NYC-Parents in Action, Inc. to host guest speaker, Mel Levine, M.D., who gave a lecture on "Young Minds Racing Against Time: How Developing Brains Struggle to Meet Growing Demands."

Spring 2005 Symposium
 On May 10th, 2006, the CCF partnered with NYC-Parents in Action, Inc. to host guest speaker, Mel Levine, M.D., who gave a lecture on "Young Minds Racing Against Time: How Developing Brains Struggle to Meet Growing Demands."

Spring 2004 Symposium
The Mount Sinai Children's Center Foundation and NYC Parents in Action are pleased to present a symposium with Mel Levine, M.D.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
8:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M
The Kaufmann Auditorium
92nd Street and Lexington AVenue at 92nd Street

Guest Speaker, Mel Levine, M.D.

Dr. Mel Levine is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the Director of the University's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. Dr. Levine is also the founder of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit Institute for the study of differences in learning, and co-chairs the Institute's Board of Directors with Charles R. Schwab.

Over the past thirty years Dr. Levine has pioneered programs for the evaluation of children and young adults with learning, development, and/or behavioral problems. In 1995, Dr. Levine received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for outstanding contribution to the field of child development. Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Jerome Kagan were also recipients of this prestigious award in other years.

Dr. Levine graduated summa cum laude from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in England . He later graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his pediatric training at The Children's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Levine served for fourteen years as Chief of the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital and was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Harvard Medical School before moving to North Carolina.

Dr. Levine's groundbreaking framework for understanding why children struggle in school provides a straightforward, practical system for recognizing variations in the way children learn and uses their strengths to become more successful students. Properly executed, this model can change lives by radically improving prospects for success in and out of school.

Publications by Dr. Mel Levine include:

  • A Pediatric Approach to Learning Disorders
  • Developmental Variation and Learning Disorders (2nd Edition)
  • Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (3rd Edition)
  • All Kinds Of Minds
  • Educational Care
  • Keeping A Head In School
  • Jarvis Clutch - Social Spy
  • A Mind at a Time (a New York Times bestseller for 29 weeks in 2002)
  • The Myth of Laziness

Fall 2002 Symposium
 "Being the Other, Addressing the Visible and Invisible Differences Among Children"
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
The Kaye Playhouse
68th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue (North Side)
New York, New York

Guest Speaker
Mel Levine, M.D.
Mel Levine, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina
Director, Center for Development and Learning
Co-Chairman of the Board, All Kinds of Minds, a non-profit Institution for the Understanding of Differences in Learning

Spring 2002 Symposium
"Environmental Threats to Children's Health - Before and After September 11th"
Monday, February 25, 2002
Stern Auditorium, Annenberg Building
Madison Avenue and 100th Street
New York, New York

Guest Speaker
Philip Landrigan, M.D.
Chairman and Professor, Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Professor, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Introduction by
Frederick J. Suchy, M.D.
Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics
Chairman, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics
President, Mount Sinai Children's Center Foundation, Inc.