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The Biology of Connection: Supporting Relationships to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect

Bio:

Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP is a primary care pediatrician, educator, and Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA (since 2014) where she is Division Chief of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics and Peter Shapiro Term Chair for the Promotion of Child Developmental and Behavioral Health. She completed her MD, PhD, and pediatric residency at the University of Rochester. During her 30 years in Rochester, she developed a community-based, integrated-care medical home for children in foster care, worked in a suburban private practice, precepted residents in continuity clinic, created and led a regional child abuse program, conducted research highlighting vulnerable children, and mentored trainees. Dr Szilagyi has worked closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for 3 decades. In the 1990s, she led a multi-disciplinary team at AAP-District-II NYS that developed the first health care standards for children in foster care--Fostering Health (now the national standards). She has served in leadership roles on the AAP’s Committee on Early Childhood, Task Force on Foster Care, and Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship Care. She served as the AAP President in 2022 and currently serves as the Co-Medical Director of the new AAP Center for Relational Health and Trauma-Informed Care.