North Carolina doctor to lead Kempe Center

Des Runyan, M.D., has been selected to lead the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Runyan, a professor of social medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, will become the Kempe Center's director in August. Runyan also we be a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His wife, Carol, will be a professor in the Colorado School of Public Health and will work on unintentional injury prevention efforts with the CHAI Program (Children's Health Advocacy Institute) at The Children's Hospital.