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About the Speakers

David Urion, MD, FAAN

David Urion, MD, FAAN

David Urion serves as the program director for the Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities residencies at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he holds the Charles F. Barlow Chair in the Department of Neurology, an endowed chair devoted to medical education. He is the immediate Past President of the Professors of Child Neurology (PCN). He has been involved in the Universal Curriculum initiative, served on the ACGME Neurology RRC working group developing the Child Neurology Milestones, chaired the Working Group for the NDD Milestones, and serves on the Working group for Child Neurology Milestones 2.0. He is on the Neurology Residency Review Committee of the ACGME.  In the AAN, he serves on the Graduate Education Subcommittee, the RITE examination advisory committee (where he leads the Child Neurology section). He writes  the neurology section of AAP Grand Rounds, and serves on the executive committee of the AAP Section on Neurology, where is liaison to the Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee.

Dr. Urion directs the Behavioral Neurology Clinics and Programs at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He has been awarded the Teacher of the Year award three times by the Child Neurology residents at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He is also a medical ethicist, and is Co-Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee at Boston Children’s Hospital. He teaches ethics classes at Harvard Medical School, and  is course co-director for the ethics module of Essentials of the Profession course, which all students take after their principle clinical experience (core rotations).

Dr. Urion is the recipient of the 2016 CNS/PCN Blue Bird Circle Training Program Director Award