Kyle Dean Pruett, M.D. BORN 27 August 1943 Raton, New Mexico EDUCATION 1965 B.A. in History and Music, Yale University 1967 Summer fellowship in child psychiatry/Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco, CA 1969 M.D. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA CAREER 7/1/1969-6/30/70 Combined Internship, Mt. Auburn Hospital (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA, and Boston City Hospital (Pediatrics) 7/1/1970-6/30/72 Psychiatry Residency, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 7/1/1972-6/30/74 Child Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT 7/1/1974-6/30/08 Private practice of Child, Adolescent, Adult, and Family Psychiatry, New Haven and Guilford, CT 9/1/1974-8/30/76 Staff child psychiatrist, Adolescent Crisis Unit for Treatment and Evaluation, St. Raphael's Hospital, New Haven, CT 5/1/1975-8/1/75 Visiting Fellow, Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic with Anna Freud, London, England, fall 7/1/1975-6/30/79 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center 9/1/1978-6/30/08 Attending Physician, Yale-New Haven Hospital 7/1/1979-6/30/87 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center; Coordinator of Training, Child Development Unit 7/1/1987-present Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine 7/1/1993-present Joint Appointment as Clinical Professor, Yale School of Nursing 1995-98 Coordinator of Education and Training, Yale Child Study Center 1999-2007 Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center 1999-2007 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale Child Study Center 7/1/08-present Private Practice Child, Adolescent, Adult and Family Psychiatry, Northampton, MA 6/1/09-present Consultant to Alberta Family Wellness Initiative and Norlien/Palix Foundation, Calgary, AB 7/1/2010-present Consultant to Early Childhood and to ‘Fatherworks’ Programs, Village for Children and Families, Hartford, CT 3/2012-1/2013 Visiting Professorship, University of Calgary (Alberta, CA) School of Medicine 9/12-present Visiting Professor, Infant-Parent Mental Health Faculty, University of California (Davis) HONORS Sheldon Memorial Prize for Contribution to the Humanities at Yale AND American Health Book Award for The Nurturing Father AWARDS Visiting Scholar, University of Vermont School of Medicine, 1988, 1993 Visiting Scholar, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 1988, 1994 Visiting Professor, Washington College, Chestertown, MD, 1993 President, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. Washington, DC, 1997-2000 National Association of Parenting Publications’ Gold Award for Me, Myself and I Independent Publisher's Book Award, for Me, Myself, and I Harris Visiting Scholar, Harris Center for Infant and Toddler Development, University of Minnesota Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale University, 1999- Best Doctors in CT, 2000- Distinguished Leadership Award, Governor's Fatherhood Initiative, State of Connecticut, 2002 Youth Advisory Distinguished Leadership Award, Youth Continuum, 2002 27th Annual Telly Award for Best National Non-Broadcast Video ‘Parenting with Pruett’, 2006 Richard Manware Humanitarian Award, Coordinating Council for Children in Crisis – with Marsha Kline Pruett, New England Region, 2007 ‘Improving the lives of children and families through research and practice’ 2006 Davey Award from International Academy of Visual Arts for ‘Parenting with Pruett’ 2007 Distinguished Lifetime Teaching Award, Yale University School of Medicine 2010 National Council on Family Relations Best Research Article Award, Men-in-Families Section, with Marsha Kline Pruett, Carolyn and Phil Cowan 2010 Jane C. Bourns Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Leadership, Connecticut Association for Infant Mental Health 2012 Seven Treaty Tribes Community Healing Honor at Blue Quills College Long House, St. Paul, Alberta, CA 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine 2016- Best Doctors@ Award (13 consecutive peer awards since 1994 in Connecticut and Massachusetts) 2014 Dr. Paulina Kernberg Memorial Lecture, NYPH/Westchester 2015 Yale Medal, University Glee Club 2016 92ndStreet Y, Distinguished Achievement 2017 Distinguished Service, Sesame Workshop 2018 ECDC Nina R. Lief Memorial Lecture, Colony Club, NYC 2019 Tufts School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service to Medicine MEMBER- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry- Life Member SHIPS American Psychiatric Association – Life Member Connecticut Council of Child Psychiatrists, Delegate to the National Regional Assemblies, 1983-85 New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, 2008- Performing Arts Medicine Association Society for Research in Family Therapy World Association for Infant Mental Health National Association of Physician Broadcasters Alliance for Childhood Massachusetts Medical Society New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law FORMAL 1974-1976 Seminar in clinical child development with Sally Provence, M.D. TEACHING Yale Child Development Unit 1975-1985 Advanced seminar in family therapy for fellows in child psychiatry and psychiatric social workers, Yale Child Study Center 1976-1998 Supervision of developmental assessment of young children in child psychiatry, psychology, and pediatrics, Yale Child Study Center 1977- Yale College, Child Study 125a with S. Provence, K. Lustman-Findling, Nancy Close, Carla Horowitz 1978-1998 Seminar on Clinical Child Development for child psychiatry fellows, child psychology interns, pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and psychiatry fellows 1978-1998 Coordinator of Training, Child Development Unit, Yale Child Study Center 1978-1980 Seminar on Family Therapy & Child Development for Department of Psychiatry faculty, Yale School of Medicine, with Stephen Fleck, M.D. 1984- 2003 Seminar on The Inner Life of the Young Child with E. Kirsten Dahl, Ph.D. 1984 -86 Founder, and Co-chair with A. Gurwitt, Yale Conference on Fatherhood. Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT 1985-1986 Chairman, Child Custody Conflict Placement Committee, Yale Child Study Center and Yale Law School 1986-1995 Seminar on Family Evaluation and Diagnosis, Department of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center 1999- 2005 Course Director, Clinical Aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine –YSM-I 2001-05 The Essential Father, Alliance for Lifelong Learning (AllLearn@Yale, Stamford, Oxford Universities) 2002- Clinician-researcher Tensions, Identities and Opportunities, Summer Intern Lecture Series, Yale School of Medicine 2003-07 Advanced Seminar on Child Development in Family Development with E. Kirsten Dahl, Ph.D. 2008 Psychoanalytic and Attachment Perspectives on Treating the Parent-child Dyad, Smith College School of Social work 2009 Faculty of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Review Course, Boston, MA 2018- Foundations of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center INVITED LECTURES Yale Medical Student Psychiatric Society, 1977-; Neighborhood Music School, New Haven, CT; Myerson Lectures, Tufts University School of Medicine, 1988-1990; Western New England Psychoanalytic Society; National Institutes of Health, 1988-; Yale School of Nurs- ing; Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1988; Yale Law School, 1988-99; New York Hos- pital-Cornell Medical Center; Wheaton College (Mary Lyons Lecture); University of Vermont School of Medicine; University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Distinguished Faculty Lec- ture Series, New York City Yale Club; Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1988-98; Distin- guished Scholar Lecture Series, New York City Public Library, 1988-1994; Eighth Annual Be- nevolent Oration for the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia; Royal Children's Hospi- tal, Melbourne, Australia; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Long Island; The Esther Zetland Lecture, ‘Guns or Dolls: The Nurturing Father's Impact on Child Development’; Illinois Associa- tion of Child Psychotherapists, Chicago, IL 1991; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Child Psychology; Doris Bernstein Lecture, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, 1995; University of Massachusetts; Eugene Bumpass Lecture, University of Texas, Houston, 2000; Enid Peschel Lecture, Program for the Humanities in Medicine at Yale, 2000; Howard Rappaport Lecture, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NYC 2001; Margaret Mahler Symposium, Philadelphia, 2002; San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 2003; Distinguished Lecture Series, 92nd St. Y, NYC, NY, 2004, Parenting Perspectives Series, 92nd St. Y, 2007, UMass- Amherst – Family Research Symposium, 2007, Smith College Summer Lecture Series, Smith School of Social Work, 2008, “Kids’ Day at the Capitol” Keynote, Sacramento, CA, 2008, ‘El Rol del Padre’, Universidad Cayetano Heredia Psychoanalytic Seminar, Lima, Peru (Centro Oye Papa Oye Mama), 2009, Program and Curricular Implications of Paternal Engagement Interventions, Norlien Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta, CA, 2009-, ‘Empathy and the Teachable Moment’, Building Empathy and Resilience-The Role of the Early Childhood Educator, 92ndStreet Y, Wonderplay Early Childhood Learning Conference NYC, NY, 2009, ‘Anxiety in Children and Adolescents; A developmental Perspective’, Keynote Address for 13th Annual Peter Tracy Symposium, Mental Health in Independent School Communities, Hartford, CT, 2010, Special Keynote Address 25th National Training Institute, Zero to Three, “Paternal Engagement and Mental