Name of Program:

Children's Hospital Boston

Program Director:

Leonard Rappaport, MD, MS

Contact Person:

Lisa Albers, MD, MPH

300 Longwood Ave
Phone: 617-355-4125
FAX: 617-730-0252
E-mail :

Faculty:

Barbaresi, William
Becker, Ronald
Brazelton, T Berry
Bridgemohan, Carolyn
Chan, Eugenia
Crocker, Allen
Driscoll, Katherine
Friedman, Sandra
Gaab, Nadine
Hanson, Ellen
Hundley, Rachel
Huntington, Noelle
Keefer, Constance
Kiernan, William
Knight, John
Kovacs, Alexis
Lafiosca, Tina
Leclair, Elaine
Levy, Sharon
Munir, Kerim
Nasir, Ramzi
Neesen, Michael
Nelson, Charles
Prock Albers, Lisa
Rappaport, Leonard
Samper, Ximena Sanchez
Schizer, Miriam
Schonkoff, Jack
Schonwald, Alison
Schram, Patricia
Singer, Jayne
Snidman, Nancy
Sparrow, Joshua
Sullivan, Nancy
Ware, Janice
Weissman, Laura

Number of fellows:

6

MCHB Funding Years:

July, 1991

RRC Accreditation Year:

ACGME accreditation – DBP - 2003

Program Goals:

Goal 1: To prepare fellows in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics for leadership roles as clinicians, teachers, investigators and advocates in addressing a broad range of behavioral, psychological and developmental topics on clinical, public health and policy levels throughout the life span.

Goal 2: To provide pediatric practitioners, residents and medical students with essential biopsychosocial knowledge and clinical expertise to ensure that children and families have access to Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics services at all levels of care beginning in their medical home in their primary care practice.

Goal 3: To integrate the activities of the Leadership Education in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics program with existing primary care and community based initiatives targeted at Healthy People 2010 goals from the local to national level. Special

Features:

1. Three year research curriculum – including an MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health
2. Neurology and psychiatry core curriculum
3. Fellows provide multidisciplinary and individual consultations in community and hospital-based settings
4. Electives available in psychopharmacology, sleep medicine, substance abuse and/or adoption medicine
5. Fellows as Educators seminars in conjunction with Harvard Medical School