Michael Rich, MD, MPH

The Mediatrician, Michael Rich, MD, MPH, is the father of 2 teenaged boys, a filmmaker and screenwriter who has worked with legendary directors Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola, and a Harvard pediatrician at America’s #1 Boston Children’s Hospital. Understanding the power of screens to engage, connect, and change us all, he translates authoritative, cutting-edge science into warm, plain-spoken advice on how to raise, teach, and care for children and adolescents. With Dr. Rich’s guidance, we can use media as part of a balanced diet of experience to raise smarter, stronger and kinder children in the Digital Age.