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Waltham, MA 02454

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Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. is Dean of the Heller Graduate School and Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development at Brandeis University.

He currently serves as Chair of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, and is Chair of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development. He also serves as a member of the scientific core group of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University, medical education at New York University School of Medicine, pediatric training at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and fellowship in developmental pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and The Children’s Hospital in Boston. Prior to assuming the Dean’s position at Brandeis, he was Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

He has received multiple professional awards, including a Kellogg National Fellowship, a Fellowship from the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, and the Distinguished Contribution to Child Advocacy Award from the Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services of the American Psychological Association.

He has served on numerous professional and public interest advisory boards, including the Executive Committee of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, he has served as a member of the Panel on Child Care Policy, the Steering Group for the National Forum on the future of Children and Families, the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, and the Roundtable on Head Start Research.

He has authored more than 80 publications, co-edited two editions of the widely-heralded Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, and served on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals, including Child Development and Infant Mental Health Journal; has been the Principal Investigator of the Early Intervention Collaborative Study, a longitudinal investigation of developmentally vulnerable children and their families; and is a member of the Board of Directors of Zero-To-Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.