

Currently, she serves as a member of the New York City Board of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Advisory Board.ĭr. Hamburg served on the Public Health Council, the Governor's Task Force on Life and Law, and the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education. MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Council on Adolescence. She has been a member of the Committee on Successful Adolescence of the John D. Hamburg has served on the boards of the Bush Foundation, the Revson foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New World Foundation. David Hamburg, was published April, 2004 by Oxford University Press.ĭr. She published a book on "Violence in American Schools." Most recently, a book, "Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development," jointly authored with Dr.

She is most noted for her pioneering work on peer counseling, studies of diabetic children and adolescents, studies of the health and mental health status of minority populations, her insight into recognizing early adolescence as a distinctive and critical developmental period and her clinical research on school-based programs for conflict resolution and violence prevention in the schools. Hamburg's research has been in normal adolescence, adolescent psychopathology, and endorcrine-behavior interactions. She served as Expert Consultant for Children and Youth for the World Health Organization, Division of Mental Health.ĭr.
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She is a member of numerous other professional societies, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Society for Adolescent Research, the Society for Research in Child Development, the American Public Health Association, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, and New York Academy of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Medicine of London. Hamburg was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. from Yale University School of Medicine.ĭr. At both Stanford and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, she was also Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry. Her professorships were at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in their respective departments of Psychiatry. Hamburg has had an outstanding career in academic medicine as well as in public service. She is the past President of the William T. Hamburg is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Co-Director of the Social Medicine and Public Policy Program.
