Meet Dr. Lavin

Dr. Lavin was educated at Harvard (BA) and Ohio State (MD). At Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital, and MIT, he completed training, became board-certified in general pediatrics and the subspecialty of newborn medicine, taught, and published original research in such journals as Science. He has been in pediatric practice for more than 25 years. He has served on several national committees of the AAP, as president of the Northern Ohio Pediatrics Society, and been invited to represent the US in Slovakia for a medical mission.  Dr. Lavin has co-authored two books on parenting: “Who’s the Boss? Moving Families from Conflict to Collaboration” (Collaboration Press, 2006) and “Baby & Toddler Sleep Solutions for Dummies” (Wiley, 2007).

• Board Certified Pediatric Medicine
• Designated in America’s Top Pediatricians, current
• Creation of National Policy on Children with Special Needs
• National Organizing Committee Developing Guidelines to Reduce the Incidence of Autism and ADHD
• Expert Panel that Created the Fourth Edition of Bright Futures, the Standard of Care for American Pediatricians