Mel Levine, M.D. is a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and the director of the universitys Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. He is the co-founder and co-chair of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit institute that develops products and programs to help parents, teachers, clinicians, and children address differences in learning. A Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Levine lives in the Raleigh-Durham area with his wife, Bambi, and many geese, donkeys, and other animals.