Grand Rounds

Thursday, October 4th – 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Council Oak Ballroom
Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills
1902 E. 71st

Featuring
Dr. Mel Levine
Co-founder, All Kinds of Minds

There is no charge for this presentation. Seating is limited and registration is required. Click here to reserve your place.

1.5 hours of professional continuing education credits are available.

The Wrath of Math

This presentation will focus on the special cognitive challenges presented by mathematical learning during childhood and the specific neurodevelopmental breakdowns that occur among students. While the evening is geared to medical professionals, with an emphasis on pediatricians, psychiatrists, and family practice physicians, others are welcome to attend, including mental health professionals, educators, school administrators, and parents. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of the brain processes involved in understanding and remembering math, ways to manage mathematical deficits, and knowledge of the common emotional and motivational complications of mathematical underachievement.

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. Dr. Levine is also the co-founder of All Kinds of Minds (www.allkindsofkinds.org), 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 challenges. 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. 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. Dr. Levine is the author of numerous publications, including the best seller, A Mind at a Time.