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Leena Dev, MD
Medical Director University of Michigan Health System
Leena Dev earned her bachelors degrees in Biochemistry and Multidisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Sociology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. She completed her residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She spent a few years in general pediatrics after which she joined the Child Protection Team at the University of Michigan. She is now the Medical Director of that team. She teaches extensively in the medical setting in the hospital and around the state. She also trains Children’s Protective Service workers for the State of Michigan on the medical aspects of child abuse. Committee involvement includes the CAC Multidisciplinary Team, Child Death Review Team, and Medical Advisory Committee to the Department of Human Services for the State of Michigan. She runs a monthly multidisciplinary child abuse case review committee at the hospital. She is a member of the AAP Section on Child Abuse and Neglect and the co-chairperson of the Michigan Chapter of the AAP committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Her interest in teaching medical students and residents started early on. She proposed to the University, a new comprehensive curriculum in Child Abuse Pediatrics as divided into four components: Medical, Social, Legal and Prevention and received a $10,000 Gilbert Whitaker Award for the implementation of this curriculum. So far, she has had not only pediatric residents follow components of this curriculum but family practice residents, emergency medicine residents and pediatric emergency medicine fellows have all participated with rave reviews. A similar curriculum was offered to and accepted by the medical school for a fourth year medical student elective and has had an overwhelming number of respondents.
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