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Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Founder, Child Development Unit
Children's Hospital, Boston
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton is the author of the "Brazelton Way" series — Sleep, Discipline, Calming Your Fussy Baby, Feeding Your Child, and Toilet Training, co-authored by Dr. Joshua Sparrow. Among other titles, he has also co-authored Touchpoints Three to Six with Dr. Sparrow, and wrote Touchpoints, which was also produced as a three-part videocassette. His Emmy-Award winning television show, "What Every Baby Knows," ran for 12 years.
Dr. Brazelton, one of the most renowned voices on pediatrics and child development, is currently clinical professor of pediatrics, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and professor of psychiatry and human development at Brown University. The Harvard Medical School established the T. Berry Brazelton chair in pediatrics in 1995, and Dr. Brazelton continues his teaching and clinical activities at the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital, Boston.
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Children's Hospital, a preventive outreach program training healthcare professionals to serve families of infants and toddlers, was founded in 1993. Since 1996, the Touchpoints model has taken hold in over 42 communities in 22 states. The work has been furthered by the founding of the nonprofit Brazelton Foundation in 1998.
Dr. Brazelton received his B.A. from Princeton University and graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He established the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital, Boston, in 1972. He was awarded the World of Children Award in 2002.