Thomas berry brazelton biography

American pediatrician and author (–)

Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, – March 13, ) was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS).

Brazelton hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column.

Thomas berry brazelton biography

He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books.

Biography

Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. He graduated in from Princeton and in from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he accepted a medical internship at Roosevelt Hospital.

From , after war service in the U.S. Navy, he completed his medical residency in BostonMassachusetts General Hospital (MGH) before undertaking pediatric training at Children's Hospital of Boston.

He entered private practice in , in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at MGH and the James Jackson Putnam