Featured Physician

(From the April 2024 issue of MedStat) 

Daniel L. Coury, MD, is a professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Psychiatry at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a member of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Nationwide Children's. Dr. Coury received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, followed by an internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences. He was a fellow in ambulatory pediatrics at Brown University.

Activities over the past four decades include federally funded projects in the areas of drug exposed infants, training in developmental and behavioral pediatrics, pediatric residency curriculum guidelines, pediatric psychopharmacology, training professionals in dual diagnosis and the establishment of a website for developmental and behavioral pediatrics. He also is active in conducting pediatric psychopharmacology clinical trials in ADHD and autism. In addition to his patient care and research activities, he is the medical director of the Autism Care Network of Autism Speaks, a consortium of twenty autism specialty centers across North America. In 2022, he was the recipient of the C. Anderson Aldrich Award for Lifetime Achievement in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics from the American Academy of Pediatrics.