Jess P. Shatkin, M.D., M.P.H.

Jess P. Shatkin, M.D., M.P.H.

Jess P. Shatkin, M.D., M.P.H., is the author of Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe and one of the country's foremost voices in child and adolescent mental health. He serves as Vice Chair for Education at the Child Study Center and Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. For the past ten years, Dr. Shatkin has been the host of "About Our Kids," a two-hour call-in radio show broadcast live on SiriusXM's Doctor Radio. Photo credit: Jeremy Folmer