Media contact: Hannah Echols, echolsh@uab.edu
Candice Dye, M.D.
Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
Division of Academic General Pediatrics
Areas of expertise:
- Children and hot car deaths
- Child car seat safety
- Caffeine and teens
- Children and guns
- Adolescent and teen suicide
- Water safety and children
- Traveling with children
- Infant safe sleep
- Postpartum depression
Dye is a general pediatrician who sees patients at UAB and Children’s of Alabama. She has a passion for educating resident physicians, patients and their families regarding anticipatory guidance and all things safety — to be proactive instead of reactive when given the chance.
She is currently working on a project teaching residents how to address sensitive medical health issues that adolescents and teens face, specifically suicide. She thinks through dangers and risks that children and teens face to find real world solutions. Dye provides medical perspective for parents as they tackle tough issues.
Video interview:
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- Doctors say Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is wrong about 'chickenpox on purpose', NBC News
- Air travel with an infant, what to pack, Consumer Affairs
- Water wings aren't safe, don't prevent drowning, Fatherly
- Take these steps for safe swimming, Consumer Affairs
- What are ear tubes? Pediatricians explain how the procedure actually works, Romper