About Dr. Michael Rich, The Mediatrician

• May 28, 2009

My Many Jobs:

• Parent of four
• Pediatrician in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston
• Director of the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH)
• Director of Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA)
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
• Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health at Harvard School of Public Health
• Former career as a filmmaker (including serving as assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on Kagemusha)

My Favorite Media:

Movies that make me laugh:

• Animal House
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Movies that make me think:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Ikiru
• Thirteen

TV shows I watch with my (3 and 5 year old) kids:

• Red Sox baseball games is the only broadcast TV
• Mostly, they watch videos – their current favorites are the “Kipper” series

Music I listen to on road trips:

• Bob Dylan
• Mozart
• Oliver Mtukudzi

Websites I look at every day:

• Google
• 
  NY Times
• Facebook
• and of course, the Center on Media and Child Health website
  

Magazines I subscribe to:

• Newsweek
• Rolling Stone
• National Geographic

Video games I think are cool:

• Spore
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip (for Wii Fit)

YouTube videos I like:

• 
  Yes We Can    
• 
  Battle at Kruger    
• 
  Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit