Carrie Quinn is executive director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, leading a team of doctors, psychologists, researchers, and social workers that aims to transform pediatric health care delivery by imparting positive parenting tools that encourage children’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Quinn’s team has created a curriculum for incorporating promotion of positive parenting behaviors into pediatric residency training, which has expanded throughout the country. A board-certified pediatrician, Quinn has worked in private practice since 2004 and is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine.
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