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Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience to Transform Pediatric Practice

Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Pat Levitt, Fernando D. Martinez and Bruce McEwen
Pediatrics February 2021, 147 (2) e20193845; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-3845
Jack P. Shonkoff
aCenter on the Developing Child and
bHarvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
cHarvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
dDepartment of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts;
eDepartment of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
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W. Thomas Boyce
fDepartments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California;
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Pat Levitt
gThe Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California;
hKeck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California;
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Fernando D. Martinez
iAsthma and Airway Disease Research Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and
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Bruce McEwen
jThe Rockefeller University, New York, New York
†Deceased
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Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Pat Levitt, Fernando D. Martinez, Bruce McEwen
Pediatrics Feb 2021, 147 (2) e20193845; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-3845

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Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Pat Levitt, Fernando D. Martinez, Bruce McEwen
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