Robert D. Sege, M.D., Ph.D. is a primary care pediatrician whose research involves the development of a health care response to violence involving children and adolescents, ranging form child abuse to youth violence. He moved across town from the Floating Hospital for Children last summer, where he directed the Pediatric and Adolescent Health Research Center and the Division of General Pediatrics and Ado lescent Medicine. He directed the federally-funded development of the American Academy of Pediatrics' violence prevention program, Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure. Dr. Sege is also investigating the identification and management of child physical abuse in the health care setting; the results of a large prospective study on primary care providers' assessment and management of child abuse, which will be published this fall. Dr. Sege competed medical school at Harvard, graduate school at MIT, and his pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital. He is a member of the core faculty of the Harvard Injury Control Research, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poisoning Prevention.