David Demaso

Dr. David DeMaso is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB).  He completed a pediatric internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, general psychiatry training at Duke University, child psychiatry training at Judge Baker Guidance Center/CHB, and a pediatric psychiatry consultation fellowship at CHB.   As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, the underlying essence of his work has been to understand what facilitates or hinders an individual's ability to cope with adversity.  In 2002, he received the AACAP Simon Wile Leadership in Consultation Award, for his work in the field of pediatric psychosomatic medicine and in 2006 AACAP Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide for the best paper on depression and/or suicide published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.