Peter A. Gorski, M.D., M.P.A.
College of Public Health · Community and Family Health







Came to USF: 2002

Contact Information:
  Office: LRC 119
  E-Mail:
pgorski@health.usf.edu
  Voice Mail: (813)974-3728
  FAX: (813)974-8890

Degrees:
  A.B. Haverford College, 1970
  M.D. Tufts University School of Medicine, 1974
  M.P.A. Harvard University (JFK School of   Government), 1994

Professor

Discipline: Child Health and Development

Specialization:
  Infant and Early Childhood Emotional   Health
  Behavior and Attachment Relationships
  Community Responsibility for Children's   Healthy Development

Other Information:
  Biosketch


Dr. Gorski is the Director of the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies and Professor of Public Health, Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. The Chiles Center conducts regional, national and international service, research and educational programs to promote maternal and child health of underserved populations.

Dr. Gorski previously served as President of WellChild, a non-profit children's health foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a member of the LeadBoston Community Board of the National Conference for Community and Justice. Originally trained in Pediatrics and Child Development at Harvard Medical School, Dr.Gorski's career service includes posts as Director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, Division Head of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics at the Evanston Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Director of Developmental Pediatric Research and Training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Director of Professional Education at the Brazelton Institute of Boston Children's Hospital.

His current research and advocacy attempt to influence pediatric practice, community service and social policy toward comprehensive, early, preventive support for healthy child, family and community development.

 

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