Pat Levitt, PhD

Pat Levitt, PhD is the Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), the WM Keck Provost Professor of Neurogenetics, Keck School of Medicine, USC, and the Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President and Director, the Saban Research Institute at CHLA. Dr. Levitt is a developmental neuroscientist performing studies of genes and environments that contribute to building healthy and adaptive cognitive, social, and emotional circuits. His clinical research studies focus on infants, toddlers, and their caregivers to discover objective measures of risk for toxic stress. Levitt, who has published more than 350 scientific papers, is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He also serves as co-Scientific Director of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.