Marc Weissbluth
Marc Weissbluth is an American pediatrician who teaches at Northwestern University . As an expert on sleep problems in children, Weissbluth has become known to a larger audience. He is a prominent proponent of the "Cry It Out" method, sleep training for older infants and young children. His other professional interests include a. in the fields of infant and child development, colic and infantile crying.
life and work
Marc Weissbluth is a son of the Russian-born physicist Mitchel Weissbluth (Stanford University). Marc Weissbluth studied at Stanford University and the Medical School of Washington University in St. Louis , where he received his medical degree in 1970. For the next three years he practiced as a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in St. Louis. In 1973 he founded the Northwestern Children's Practice in Chicago . Since the mid-1970s he has been teaching clinical paediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University . At Children's Memorial Hospital (today: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ), he founded the Sleep Disorder Center in 1982 . In 2013, he retired from the Northwestern Children's Practice as a practicing pediatrician .
Weissbluth is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is married and has four children. His son Daniel is also a pediatrician.
Publications (selection)
- Crybabies: What to Do When Baby Won't Stop Crying! , William Morrow & Co, 1984, ISBN 978-0877956112 ; Berkley, Revised Edition, 1985, ISBN 978-0425079706
- Sweet Baby: How To Soothe Your Newborn , Northwestern Childrens Practice, 1998, ISBN 978-0966614015
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child , Ballentine, 1999, ISBN 978-0449004029 (first published in 1987)
- German edition: Healthy sleep - happy child: Comprehensive help with sleep problems , Beltz, 1997, ISBN 978-3407857194
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: Your Fussy Baby , Ballentine, 2004, ISBN 978-0345473028
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins: A Step-by-Step Program for Sleep-Training Your Multiples , Ballentine, 2009, ISBN 978-0345497796
- Sleep Consult , Amazon Kindle , 2012
Web links
- Marc Weissbluth Northwestern Children's Practice
- Marc Weissbluth Official website for Weissbluth's book publications
- Weissbluth Named One of 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weissbluth, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pediatrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |