Gary C. Comer, founder of the Lands» End clothing - catalogue company, and his wife, Frances, have made a $ 42 million donation to the University of Chicago to create the Comer Center for Children and Specialty Care — a four - story, 122,500 square - foot facility adjoining the
recently opened Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago — and to recruit
leading physician - scientists and build programs providing state - of - the - art care and advancing the forefront of pediatric medicine.
Building on an ecological model that explains multiple levels of influence on psychological development, 16 and a
recently proposed biodevelopmental framework that offers an integrated, science - based approach to coordinated, early childhood policy making and practice across sectors, 17 this technical report presents an EBD framework that draws on a recent report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University to help
physicians and policy makers think about how early childhood adversity can
lead to lifelong impairments in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.1, 6