“Raising Your Digital Native: Parenting in a World of Screens” with Michael Rich October 25, 2014
Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 8:00 PM (Click here to view a recording of this session.)
NOTE: Lectures this year will take place at Clarke Middle School at 17 Stedman Road in Lexington. GPS may not take you to the right location. Instead, follow GPS to Brookside Avenue in Lexington (not to 17 Stedman Road). Proceed to the end of Brookside, turn right, and you will be at the school.
Dr. Michael Rich, Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, is the world’s first “mediatrician.” As Director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Rich combines his creative experience as a filmmaker with rigorous scientific evidence about the powerful positive and negative effects of media to advise pediatricians and parents on how to use media in ways that optimize child development. Dr. Rich has developed media-based research methodologies and authored numerous papers and policy statements, testified to the United States Congress, and makes regular national press appearances.
Biography
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, came to medicine after a twelve-year career as a filmmaker (including serving as assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on Kagemusha). As Director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Rich combines his creative experience with rigorous scientific evidence about the powerful positive and negative effects of media to advise pediatricians and parents how to use media in ways that optimize child development at www.askthemediatrician.org. Recipient of the AAP’s Holroyd-Sherry Award and the SAHM New Investigator Award, Dr. Rich has developed media-based research methodologies and authored numerous papers and AAP policy statements, testified to the United States Congress, and makes regular national press appearances.
Related Links
Center on Media and Child Health
