Lourdes Mary Daniel
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
Biography
Adjunct Associate Professor Lourdes Mary Daniel has been a pediatrician in Singapore for almost 30 years and a full-time Neonatologist for more than 20 years. She currently heads the Department of Child Development in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, the largest child development service in Singapore which sees more than 3000 new preschool children every year. She received her Child Development training at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the USA. The department and hospital provide clinic-based developmental assessments and interventions, pilot and/or run community-based developmental programs and collaborate extensively with government ministries and philanthropic organizations to enhance the developmental services available to both the general population of children as well as vulnerable children.
Abstract
Abstract : Poverty, Development and the Brain