David L. Chadwick

David L. Chadwick, MD

David Chadwick is the Director Emeritus of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego. He has engaged in clinical work with abused children since 1960. In 1961, along with C. Henry Kempe, Leon Eisenberg, and others, he attended a meeting at the Children's Bureau in Washington drafting the first model child abuse reporting law. Over 25 years ago, Dr. Chadwick created the Center for Child Protection at Children's Hospital in San Diego - one of the first in the country. Now named the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, he has also helped to found the San Diego Community Child Abuse Coordinating Council. He was instrumental in developing a Committee on Child Abuse in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University where he is engaged in research on the epidemiology of physical abuse.