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About Dr. Mark Bertin

mark.jpgDr. Mark Bertin, a board certified developmental behavioral pediatrician, studied at the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his training in general pediatrics at Oakland Children's Hospital in California. He was first a general pediatrician in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and later returned to the East Coast for fellowship training in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics at the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (Rose Kennedy Center) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Bertin is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College, is on the faculty of the Windward Teacher Training Institute, and from 2003 to 2010 was Director of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the Westchester Institute for Human Development, working in their foster care program. He is a consultant for Reach Out and Read, a national organization that promotes child development and literacy, and is on the editorial board for the non-profit organization Common Sense Media. Dr. Bertin is a frequent lecturer for parents, teachers and professionals on topics related to child development including autistic spectrum disorders, ADHD and parenting. Dr. Bertin also teaches mindfulness based stress reduction classes for parents, having attended trainings at Jon Kabat Zinn's Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dr. Bertin's book "The Family ADHD Solution: A Scientific Approach to Maximizing Your Child's Attention While Minimizing Parents' Stress" was released by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2011.

Recent Entries

Discovering Our Own Parenting Limits: Part One
It's no leap of brilliance to state that kids require consistent limit setting. And yet, we all struggle in different…
ADHD and High School Planning: What It Takes to Thrive
The statement "he's fifteen and should take responsibility for his school work" doesn't always hold water. It doesn't have anything…
Mindfulness and Media: Use It, Enjoy It, but Don't Let It Rule Your World
In the 1950s smoking was everywhere.There was a cultural assumption that it was cool to smoke and everyone had the…
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