Lee Smith Carson, MD

L. Alex Young, MD, is a child abuse pediatrician with Prisma Health Children’s Hospital. She received her medical degree and completed her general pediatrics residency at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. She then completed a fellowship in child abuse pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was a member of the hospital’s Mortality Review Committee. Dr. Young also participated in the Centers for Disease Control’s Sudden Death in the Young project, where cases of SIDS and SUIDS were reviewed for the development of a surveillance registry. She has an interest in community outreach and health education.

Matthew D. MacCarthy, MD, is a pediatric physiatrist at Prisma Health Children's Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and then completed a fellowship in pediatric rehabilitation medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. Dr. MacCarthy specializes in functional ability and offers medications, therapies, programs and assistive devices to develop and restore skills and mobility to children and adolescents facing temporary or permanent disability and loss of function due to medical conditions, injuries or accidents. His particular areas of interest include cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and spina bifida.