Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld

Bio:

Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld graduated from Cornell University and Harvard University Medical School, where he also later served as a faculty member. While at Harvard in the early 1970's, he was among the first clinicians to uncover the high prevalence of sexual abuse among children who became psychiatric patients. In 1977, Dr. Rosenfeld, a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, joined Stanford University Medical School's faculty where he headed its child psychiatry training program.

Dr. Rosenfeld returned to NYC in 1984 and now spends his time in the private practice of child and adult psychiatry in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Rosenfeld is an academic advisor to the Better Business Bureau's Children's Advertising Review Unit, which sets media and industry standards on children's advertising for television, magazines, and most recently, for the internet. He also serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, is an associate psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and serves on the Board of Governors for Harvard Medical School's Center for Mental Health and Media.

In 2005, Dr. Rosenfeld won the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Catcher in the Rye Award for Child advocacy. In 1997, he won the Wilfred Hulse Award for outstanding contributions to child and adolescent psychiatry. From 1999-2004, he served on the editorial board of the prestigious Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the author of over 120 professional articles and has written five books. In early 2000, he and Nicole Wise Co-authored Hyper-Parenting which in 2001 was issued as a paperback,The Over-Scheduled Child. It has been or is being translated for Belgium, China, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain.

Dr. Rosenfeld is frequently quoted in the press and has been a guest on numerous TV shows, such as Good Morning America, Larry King Live, The CBS Morning News, The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and CNN News. He co-hosted a Nickelodeon special with Linda Ellerbee to help children cope with the Oklahoma City bombing, and has contributed to specials on children’s sports on both CNN and ESPN. Articles about Dr. Rosenfeld’s work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune,L.A. Times, Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, Parents Magazine, and numerous others nationally and internationally.

Dr. Rosenfeld lives with his wife and three children, Lisa, Sam and Michael. He is founder of a grass roots movement, National Family Night (www.nationalfamilynight.org) which is devoted to rebalancing family priorities.