Author & Media Expert Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UNM Medical School
Speaking engagements available.
Author of the exciting new book, "The Death of Childhood -- Reinventing the Joy of Growing Up.
ABOUT ME
Maggie, my Pet Therapy Dog
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Maggie is an 8-year old yellow Labrador Retriever who has been doing pet therapy visits since age 2. We started the Albuquerque Airport Ambassador Dog program.
She has been petted by more than 30,000 people, including Seth Rogen, Dottie Pepper, and members of the "Breaking Bad" cast. Her TV appearances are here:
Maggie is an 8-year old yellow Labrador Retriever who has been doing pet therapy visits since age 2. We started the Albuquerque Airport Ambassador Dog program.
She has been petted by more than 30,000 people, including Seth Rogen, Dottie Pepper, and members of the "Breaking Bad" cast. Her TV appearances are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=640c4z6ZICE and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO98Bi4vz2Q
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Strasburger has lectured all over the world (e.g., China, Japan, Australia, Europe).
He has authored 13 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters.
His textbook, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENT, AND THE MEDIA is used in Communications courses around the counry.
Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Strasburger founded the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and practiced general pediatrics and adolescent medicine there for 28 years. He is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus.
My Books
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CURRENT BOOK: The Death of Childhood: Reinventing the Joy of Growing Up.
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019.
Available on AMAZON.
For all publishing rights, please contact my agent, Jessica Alvarez at Bookends Literary Agency: JAlvarez@Bookendsliterary.com
See also an excerpt published in 2017 in Psychoanalytical Study of the Child: 70 (1): 91-100.
Strasburger VC: Rounding Third and Heading Home - A Novel. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1974.
Strasburger VC: Basic Adolescent Gynecology. Baltimore: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1990.
Strasburger VC (one of five authors): The American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescent Health Care Book. New York: Bantam Press, 1991.
Strasburger VC: Getting Your Kids to Say No in the ‘90s When You Said Yes in the ‘60s. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Strasburger VC: Adolescents and the Media: Medical and Psychological Impact. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995.
Strasburger VC, Brown RT: Adolescent Medicine: A Practical Guide, 2nd edition. Philadephia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998.
Strasburger VC (one of five authors): The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Caring for Your Teenager Book, 2nd edition. New York: Bantam Press, 1999.
Strasburger VC, Wilson B: Children, Adolescents and the Media. Thousand Oaks, SAGE, 2002.
Strasburger VC (one of five authors): The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Caring for Your Teenager Book, 3rd edition. New York: Bantam Press, 2003.
Strasburger VC, Brown RT, Braverman PK, Rogers P, Holland C, Coupey S: Adolescent Medicine: A Practical Manual. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Strasburger VC, Wilson B, Jordan A: Children, Adolescents and the Media, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2009.
Strasburger VC, Wilson B, Jordan A: Children, Adolescents and the Media, 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2014.
Biography
I was born in Baltimore, exactly 100 years to the day after Edgar Alan Poe died in the same city.
Attended City College (the 3rd oldest public high school in the country), then Yale College and Harvard Medical School.
At Yale, I studied fiction-writing with Robert Penn Warren.
My 1st novel, Rounding Third & Heading Home (St. Martins Press) was published when I was a senior in medical school.
Internship and Residency at Children's Hospital in Seattle and Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Paddington Green Children's Hospital in London. Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
First 6 years as Director of Adolescent Medicine at Yale-Bridgeport Hospital. Then 28 years starting the Adolescent Medicine program at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Married to a neuropsychiatrist. Two children, ages 25 and 28.
