HEALTH MEDIA NOW-DR. RETTEW-PARENTING MADE COMPLICATED

Health Media Now

Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. PST for a live show with host Denise Messenger. Our guest is David Rettew (Ri-TOO), MD. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of the Child, Adolescent and Family Division of the Vermont Department of Mental Health. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania before working at the National Institute of Mental Health. He then earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont followed by adult and child psychiatry training at Harvard Medical School within the Massachusetts General and McLean Hospital program. Dr. Rettew divides his time between clinical, teaching and research activities. He has over 100 published journal articles, chapters, and scientific abstracts on a variety of child mental health topics, including a 2013 book entitled Child Temperament: New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness. His newest book is Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today called, “The ABCs of Child Psychiatry” that has been viewed over a million times. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook @PediPsych. Dr. Rettew is married and the father of three children.