Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, MS, MBA

Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, MS, MBA, is the Division Chief and Las Madrinas Chair, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He is also Co-Director of the Behavioral Health Institute and Medical Director of the Newborn Follow-up Program and Boone Fetter Clinic. Additionally, Dr. Vanderbilt is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Educational Scholar) at Keck School of Medicine and Occupational Science/Occupational Therapy at USC. He completed his medical school at the University of Tennessee, residency at UCLA, and DBP fellowship and a 2 year faculty appointment at Boston University. Dr. Vanderbilt received his MBA from USC.

At USC and CHLA, he attained a KL2 Mentored Career Development Award to study the outcomes of High-Risk Infants (HRI) and has contributed to over 90 manuscripts, policy statements, editorials, and chapters. He also obtained several federal MCHB training grants for the California Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and DBP training programs and been a Co-I on over 5 NIH grants. He co-leads the Saban Institute's Best Starts to Life strategic priority. He is a site PI for the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network (DBPnet), which is the only national professional society devoted exclusively to DBP disorders and has published on Autism and ADHD with a recent study in JAMA. As ACGME DBP fellowship director, he has graduated 13 DBP fellows and is partnering across the pediatric residency programs of the Los Angeles basin at Los Angeles County + USC, UCI-CHOC, Kaiser, and UCLA for DBP training. As the medical director of the Newborn Follow-up clinic at CHLA, he has led the effort to bring an interdisciplinary team of nutrition, nursing, occupational and physical therapy, psychology, and social work staff together to enhance the parent-infant relationship of NICU graduates.

Dr. Vanderbilt was an executive committee member for the Council on Early Childhood with the AAP. He serves as a member of the subboard for DBP with the American Board of Pediatrics and permanent member of the NICHD Biobehavioral and Behavioral Sciences (CHHD-H) Study Section. He is the Pediatric Academic Society liaison for the Society for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and on the leadership team for the Health Equity Node of DBPNet. He holds active membership in the American Pediatric Society and Society for Pediatric Research.