Education

Boston University School of Medicine - Fellow, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics,2006; UCLA Children’s Hospital Los Angeles - Residency in Pediatrics, 2000; University of Tennessee, Memphis College of Medicine - MD, 1999

Background

Dr. Vanderbilt is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine. After a Health and Development Psychology degree from Stanford University, he obtained his MD from the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He completed his pediatric residency training at UCLA Children’s Hospital and his fellowship training at Boston University. During that training, he completed a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Fellowship at the Shriver Center and the ZERO TO THREE’s Leaders for the 21st Century Fellowship. He was board certified in 2006 in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) and on the faculty of Boston University. Now at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles/USC, he directs the DBP fellowship and LEND programs. His research is in the contextual neurodevelopmental outcomes of high-risk infant such as those with Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation with the division of neonatology.

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