David Rettew

David Rettew is a child & adolescent psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He also is the Medical Director of the Child, Adolescent and Family Division of the Vermont Department of Mental Health. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania before working at the National Institute of Mental Health. He then earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont followed by adult and child psychiatry training at Harvard Medical School within the Massachusetts General and McLean Hospital program. He joined the UVM faculty in 2002 where he divides his time between clinical, teaching and research activities. Dr. Rettew has over 100 published journal articles, chapters, and scientific abstracts on a variety of child mental health topics, and his second book, “Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood” is scheduled to be released in February by Oxford University Press. Dr. Rettew also writes a blog for Psychology Today called, “The ABCs of Child Psychiatry” that has been viewed over a million times. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook @PediPsych. Dr. Rettew is married and the father of three children.