Kathleen Kovner Kline, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and an adjunct faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School. She serves on the Medical Staff of Children’s Hospital in Denver. Dr. Kline is the principal investigator for the Commission on Children at Risk’s Report to the Nation, Hardwired to Connect: the New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities. She received an M.D. from Yale Medical School, completed her psychiatric training at the Institute of Living/University of Connecticut Psychiatry Program and her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Kline also holds a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. At the University of Colorado and at Dartmouth, she has taught child and adolescent development and psychopathology to medical students, pediatricians, family practitioners, psychiatrists, child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, and trainees in psychology and social work. Her clinical practice has included treating child and adult patients in acute hospital and outpatient settings, directing diagnostic and psychopharmacology clinics, and consultation to treatment centers for delinquent and severely emotionally impaired youth. Dr. Kline has a history of involvement with grass roots, community service, and religious institutions, and a particular interest in the role of character-shaping institutions in the prevention of psychosocial maladjustment.
Speaking Topics:
Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities
Moral and Social Development of Children
