Michael Rich, MD, MPH
Director and Founder, Digital Wellness Lab; Co-Director and Founder, Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Michael Rich, MD, MPH
Director and Founder, Digital Wellness Lab; Co-Director and Founder, Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Undergraduate School
Pomona College
1977
Claremont
CA
Medical School
Harvard Medical School
1991
Boston
MA
Internship
Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
1992
Boston
MA
Residency
Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
1994
Boston
MA
Fellowship
Adolescent Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital
1996
Boston
MA
Graduate School
MPH
Harvard School of Public Health
1997
Boston
MA
Media
Parentcast Podcast
Dr. Michael Rich is featured: Is my child spending too much time online?
Boston 25
Dr. Michael Rich shares practical strategies for raising kind, smart, healthy kids in digital age.
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine)
Professional History
Michael Rich, MD, MPH practices adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich is the founder and director of the Digital Wellness Lab and the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID), the first evidence-based medical program addressing physical, mental, and social health issues associated with digital technology use. Known as “The Mediatrician,” Dr. Rich offers research-based, actionable, and practical answers to parents’, educators’, and clinicians’ questions about children’s and adolescents’ media use and the positive and negative implications for their health and development. Dr. Rich is recognized for his acclaimed work as a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children’s media specialist and is the author of The Mediatrician’s Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World.
Publications
Social adolescents, social media, and social emotional development. View Abstract
Media Influences on Children and Advice for Parents to Reduce Harmful Exposure to Firearm Violence in Media. View Abstract
Exploring Use Patterns and Racial and Ethnic Differences in Real Time Affective States During Social Media Use Among a Clinical Sample of Adolescents With Depression: Prospective Cohort Study. View Abstract
Indian Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on Screen Time and Digital Wellness in Infants, Children and Adolescents. View Abstract
An Internet Quiz Game Intervention for Adolescent Alcohol Drinking: A Clustered RCT. View Abstract
Impact of sleep duration, physical activity, and screen time on health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. View Abstract
Can Smartphones Make Smart Kids? View Abstract
Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Treating Problematic Interactive Media Use. View Abstract
A primary care pediatrician's guide to assessing problematic interactive media use. View Abstract
Problematic interactive media use in teens: comorbidities, assessment, and treatment. View Abstract
A Preliminary Evaluation of a School-Based Media Education and Reduction Intervention. View Abstract
Internet Use, Depression, and Anxiety in a Healthy Adolescent Population: Prospective Cohort Study. View Abstract
Children's at Home: Pilot Study Assessing Dedicated Social Media for Parents of Adolescents with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. View Abstract
Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents. View Abstract
Multitasking With Television Among Adolescents. View Abstract
Media use and depression: exposure, household rules, and symptoms among young adolescents in the USA. View Abstract
Sex-related online behaviors and adolescents' body and sexual self-perceptions. View Abstract
Exploring the perspectives of obese adolescent girls. View Abstract
Characteristics of screen media use associated with higher BMI in young adolescents. View Abstract
Role of video games in improving health-related outcomes: a systematic review. View Abstract
The fault, dear viewer, lies not in the screens, but in ourselves: relationships between screen media and childhood overweight/obesity. View Abstract
A plea for concern regarding violent video games. View Abstract
Cardiac care for older adults. Time for a new paradigm. View Abstract
Device therapy in patients with heart failure and advanced age: too much too late? View Abstract
Effect of depression on prognosis in heart failure. View Abstract
Effect of omega-3 fatty acids on heart rate variability in depressed patients with coronary heart disease. View Abstract
Omega-3 augmentation of sertraline in treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease: a randomized controlled trial. View Abstract
E-mail intervention decreases online health risk references among adolescents. View Abstract
Television viewing in infancy and child cognition at 3 years of age in a US cohort. View Abstract
Generation to generation: discrimination and harassment experiences of physician mothers and their physician daughters. View Abstract
Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent media use? View Abstract
Measuring youth media exposure (MYME): A pilot study View Abstract
Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent inactivity? View Abstract
Is Television Healthy? The Medical Perspective View Abstract
Pulling the Plug on Entertainment Industry Ratings: In Reply. Pediatrics 2007;119(6):1261 View Abstract
Is TV healthy? The medical perspective View Abstract
Media and child health: pediatric care and anticipatory guidance for the information age. View Abstract
Effects of creating visual illness narratives on quality of life with asthma: a pilot intervention study. View Abstract
Effects of creating visual illness narratives on quality of life with asthma: a pilot intervention study View Abstract
Is television viewing associated with social isolation? Roles of exposure time, viewing context, and violent content. View Abstract
Policies of Health Organizations and their Effects View Abstract
Isolation of health services research from practice and policy: the example of chronic heart failure management. View Abstract
Pediatricians leading the way: integrating a career and a family/personal life over the life cycle. View Abstract
Media and Child Health: Anticipatory Guidance for the Information Age View Abstract
Brain imaging- An introduction to a new approach to studying media processes and effects View Abstract
Media and child health: Pediatric care and anticipatory guidance for the information age View Abstract
Media and child health: peril or promise View Abstract
Researching human experience: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) View Abstract
Visual narratives of the pediatric illness experience: children communicating with clinicians through video. View Abstract
Sex screen: the dilemma of media exposure and sexual behavior. View Abstract
Video killed the radio star: the effects of music videos on adolescent health. View Abstract
Overweight status of adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome: body mass index as mediator of quality of life. View Abstract
Assessing adolescents with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a multiple perspective pilot study using visual illness narratives and interviews View Abstract
Center on Media and Child Health: Building an e-resource for researchers and the public View Abstract
Achieving independence: The role of parental involvement with adolescents with spina bifida View Abstract
Achieving independece" The role of parental involement with adolescents with spina bifida View Abstract
Achieving independence: The role of parental involvement with adolescents with spina bifida View Abstract
Visual narratives of the pediatric illness experience: children communication with clinicians through video View Abstract
The effects of electronic media on children ages 0-6: a review of research and funding View Abstract
Understanding pediatric inner-city asthma: an explanatory model approach View Abstract
Applying visual research: patients teaching physicians about asthma through visual illness narratives View Abstract
Understanding pediatric inner-city asthma: an explanatory model approach. View Abstract
Health literacy via media literacy View Abstract
Show is tell View Abstract
Factors affecting change among obese adolescents View Abstract
Heart failure in the elderly. View Abstract
Boy, mediated: effects of entertainment media on adolescent male health. View Abstract
Boy, mediated: effects of media on adolescent male health View Abstract
Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews View Abstract
Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis during pregnancy: a report of 7 cases. View Abstract
Fertility concerns and sexual behavior in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome: implications for quality of life. View Abstract
Show is tell View Abstract
Visual illness narratives of asthma: explanatory models and health-related behavior. View Abstract
Quality of life in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome. View Abstract
The prognostic importance of different definitions of worsening renal function in congestive heart failure. View Abstract
Measuring quality of life in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and their families: development and evaluation of a new tool. View Abstract
Narrative research with audiovisual data: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and NVivo View Abstract
Obesity in the lives of children and adolescents: inquiry through patient-created visual narratives View Abstract
A consensus statement on Health Care Transitions for Young Adults with special health care needs: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine View Abstract
Media violence View Abstract
Children, adolescents, and television View Abstract
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Teens: Facts for Teens and their Parents; Raising Children to Resist Violence View Abstract
Sexuality, contraception, and the media View Abstract
Consumerism: its impact on the health of adolescents View Abstract
Child health in the information age: media education of pediatricians. View Abstract
Video intervention/prevention assessment: a patient-centered methodology for understanding the adolescent illness experience. View Abstract
Illness as a social construct: understanding what asthma means to the patient to better treat the disease. View Abstract
Setting research directions for media literacy and health education View Abstract
Asthma in life context: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) View Abstract
RELIEVE THE SQUEEZE! View Abstract
It's your shot! Immunization by basketball. View Abstract
The reason and rhyme of qualitative research: why, when , how to use qualitative methods in the study of adolescent health View Abstract
Media education View Abstract
Television and the Family; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Rating Your Child's Entertainment View Abstract
Showing and telling asthma: children teaching physicians with visual narrative View Abstract
High quality, cost-effective care for adolescents with pelvic inflammatory disease. View Abstract
Aggressors or victims: gender and race in music video violence. View Abstract
Sleep problems in children; Home safety checklist; Understanding the impact of media on children and teens View Abstract
Tobacco and alcohol use behaviors portrayed in music videos: a content analysis. View Abstract
Violence and weapon carrying in music videos. A content analysis. View Abstract
Managing asthma with the adolescent. View Abstract
OPEN UP: A comprehensive education approach to asthma management in adolescents View Abstract
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