Kessler, Daniel B. 1949-

views updated

KESSLER, Daniel B. 1949-

PERSONAL: Born October 20, 1949, in New York, NY; son of Samuel and Miriam Kessler; married Jill Feinberg, April 30, 1978; children: Samuel E., Hannah M. Education: Attended Columbia University; studied medicine at New York University. Politics: "Progressive." Religion: Jewish.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Arizona Child Study Center, St. Joseph's Hospital, 124 West Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85013.

CAREER: Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, MA, fellow, 1980-83; Cornell University, New York, NY, assistant professor at Cornell Medical College, 1983-90; St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, director of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Arizona Child Study Center, 1990—.


MEMBER: AAP, Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Zero to Three, Alpha Omega Alpha.


WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Peter Dawson) Failure to Thrive andPediatric Undernutrition: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Paul H. Brookes Publishing (Baltimore, MD), 1999.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, October, 1999, Lawrence Finberg, review of Failure to Thrive and Pediatric Undernutrition: A Transdisciplinary Approach, p. 1109.

More From encyclopedia.com