BIOGRAPHY OF DR. MEL LEVINE

Dr. Mel Levine is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Levine is also the co-founder of All Kinds of Minds, a non-profit institute for the study of differences in learning, with financier Charles R. Schwab. In addition, they co-chair the Institute's Board of Trustees.

Over the past thirty years, Dr. Levine has pioneered programs for the evaluation of children and young adults with learning, development and/or behavioral challenges. In 1995, Dr. Levine received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award for outstanding contribution to the field of child development, putting him in the company of Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Jerome Kagan, recipients of this prestigious award in other years. In 2005 Dr. Levine was named the most admired person in education by Scholastic Press.

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 served as Director of the University of North Carolina’s Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning for 21 years.

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 help them become more successful students. Properly executed, this model can change lives by radically improving prospects for success in and out of school.  For more information on Dr. Levine, please visit www.allkindsofminds.org.

Publications by Dr. Mel Levine include:

            

                 New York Times bestseller 

  This book explains how to identify individual learning                 As it explores the dysfunctions that result in output                           Dr. Levine's latest book focuses on the way

   patterns in children and maximize their success in life. In            failure, this book uncovers some of the principal ingredients              in which we need to go about preparing kids

   A Mind at a Time he shows us how.                                       of successful output.                                                                        for the real world and career success.

 and...
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
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