Name of Program:

Children's Hospital Boston

Program Director:

Leonard Rappaport, MD, MS

Contact Person:

Lisa Albers, MD, MPH

Address:

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

Faculty:

Leonard Rappaport, MD, MS Lisa Albers, MD, MPH
Ronald Becker, MD
Carolyn Bridgemohan, MD
Eugenia Chan, MD, MPH
Noelle Huntington, PhD
Elaine LeClair, PhD
Charles Nelson, PhD
Judith Palfrey, MD
Alison Schonwald, MD

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