DR. MEL LEVINE

"Learning to  recognize and nurture the individuality  and unique aptitude of your child in  his  goals, talents, and abilities"

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 co-founder of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit Institute for the study of differences in learning, and co-chairs the Institute's Board of Trustees 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.