Kerry English

Dr. Kerry English is a developmentally trained pediatrician currently working as Medical Director of the King Foster Care HUB Clinic in Watts, providing forensic evaluations for L.A. County DCFS in cases of alleged child abuse and neglect. He was previously director of the Child Development Division of the Pediatric Department of Drew University of Medicine and Science and the Pediatric Department of the King/Drew Medical Center. In addition to the SHIELDS Board, he had been on the Drew Child Development Corporation Board for 20 years and was chair for the last three before departing in 2012. He has been a pediatrician for forty years, nearly all in South Los Angeles, after graduating medical school from the UCLA School of Medicine (now Geffen) in 1970. After completing three years of pediatric training, he did a two year fellowship in child development at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT and returned to Los Angeles to join the faculty of Drew in 1976.