Lawrence Kutner

Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D., one of the best-known psychologists in North America, is the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation near Washington, DC. Prior to joining that foundation in 2009, he was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, where he was founder and co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital.

For seven years he wrote the "Parent & Child" column for the New York Times, which was syndicated to approximately 350 newspapers around the world. He also was the "Ask The Expert" columnist in Parents Magazine.

In 1990 he received the National Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, citing his New York Times column as the best writing about psychology in the country. In 2008 the APA gave him its Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Media Psychology.

He lives with his wife, Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, outside of Washington, DC. They have a son who's in college.