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William L. Coleman, MD
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Section Head
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician
Professor of Pediatrics, UNC Chapel Hill |
EDUCATION |
- Fellowship The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusettes 1984, Ambulatory Pediatrics (Primary Care and Developmental-Behavioral)
- Residency Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 1982, Pediatrics
- M.D. University of New Mexico School of Medicine 1979, Medicine
- M.A. University of California at Berkeley 1969, Criminology
- B.A. University of the Americas, Mexico City, Mexico 1967, Latin-American History
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RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERESTS |
| Family-oriented approaches to the evaluation and management of developmental and behavioral problems in children and adolescents, neurodevelopmental assessment of learning differences, children’s mental health issues. |
PERSONAL STATEMENT |
Dr. Coleman is a Professor of Pediatrics at UNC and Assistant Consulting Professor of Pediatrics at Duke. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center where he was awarded the Golden Apple as the outstanding teaching resident among all residents in all departments in the medical center. He completed a two year fellowship in Ambulatory Pediatrics (general and behavioral-developmental pediatrics) with Dr. Mel Levine at Children’s Hospital in Boston, served a year on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He and Dr. Levine then joined the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. He was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.
He has served as Chair of the Section for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and is presently the Chair of AAP Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health.
He has written numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of psychosocial-developmental-behavioral topics. He is co-author of Que Paso? An English-Spanish Guide for Medical Personnel, and author of Family Focused Behavioral Pediatrics (2001). He is co-editor of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics IV (2008).
Dr. Coleman was a contributing member for the panel “Behavior: Ask the Experts” of “Contemporary Pediatrics,” and was on the Editorial Board of “AAP News.”
His particular interest is developing a family-oriented, primary care approach to the assessment and management of behavioral-psychosocial problems, a method that utilizes solution-oriented and family systems principles and techniques. Dr. Coleman lectures at national and international meetings. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: |
| 2002 – present |
Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1993 – 2002 |
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1986 – 1993 |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1985 – 1986 |
Instructor in Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1985 – present |
Faculty Member, The Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning, The University of North Carolina |
| 1984 – 1985 |
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Medicine, The Children's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 1970 – 1973 |
Elementary school teacher, San Jose and Walnut Creek, CA |
RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
Coleman, W.L. & Richmond, J.B. (2008) After the Death of a Child: Helping Bereaved Parents and Brothers
and Sisters, In W. Carey, A. Crocker, W. Coleman, E. Elias, & H. Feldman (Eds) Developmental –
Behavioral Pediatrics, 4th Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Publishing Co. |
W. Carey, A. Crocker, W. Coleman, E. Elias, & H. Feldman (Eds) (2008) Developmental – Behavioral
Pediatrics, 4th Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Publishing Co. |
Hubbard, C. & Coleman, W. L. (2005) Family System Techniques for Primary Care. In S. Parker & B.
Zuckerman (Eds). Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics , 2nd Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. |
Coleman, W.L. (2004) Family Focused Behavioral Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach. In L. Osborn, T.
DeWitt, & L. First (Eds) Pediatrics. St. Louis, Elsevier Mosby. |
Coleman, W.L. & Garfield, C. (2004) Fathers and Pediatricians Enhancing Men’s Roles in the Care and
Development of their Children. Pediatrics, 113, 1406-1411. |
Kelly, D., Cull, W., Jewett, E., Coleman, W.L., et al. (2003) Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Practice
Patterns and Implications for the Work Force: Results of the FOPE III Survey of Sections’ Project.
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 24(3), 180-187. |
Coleman, W.L. (2002) Family-focused Pediatrics: A Primary Care Family Systems Approach to Psychosocial
Problems. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 32(8), 255-314. |
Perrin, E.C., Foy, J.M., Coleman, W.L., et al. (2002) Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex
Parents. Pediatrics, 109, 341-344. |
Coleman, W.L. (2001) Family Focused Behavioral Pediatrics. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and
Wilkins. |
Coleman, W.L. (2001) Family Systems Approach to the Care of Children. In R. Hoekelman, et al. (Eds)
Primary Pediatric Care 4th Edition. St. Louis: CV Mosby. |
Hagan, J.F., Coleman, W.L., et al. (2001) The New Morbidity Revisited: A Renewed Commitment to the
Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Care. Pediatrics, 108(5),1227-1230. |
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