This article features ACEsConnection member Dr. Nadine Burke Harris.
"Each day, children file through pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris' clinic in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, 1,000 patients a year with the typical childhood complaints...
"With years of experience in urban pediatric medicine, she knows she has to look at her patients closer and ask questions, a lot of questions, about their lives, their homes and what they've seen or heard.
"That's because 2 of every 3 children who come to see Harris have witnessed what she calls adverse childhood experiences....
"The San Francisco pediatrician is a key figure in Hillary Rodham Clinton's first philanthropic effort, an initiative to promote scientific studies of early childhood development and research-based policies to help kids....
"The San Francisco nonprofit Next Generation will spearhead the initiative....
"And treatment can mitigate a lifetime of health problems, she said.
"We are at a tipping point when it comes to this issue," Harris said. "This is a massive, massive public health issue."
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