2022 Presentations

4/6/2022

Teens and Screens: Finding Balance in the New Normal

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Public Schools of Brookline, Brookline MA (Virtual)

4/25/2022

Community Advocacy Rounds: Problematic Interactive Media Use: New Pathology or New Normal?

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA (Virtual)

4/27/22

Problematic Interactive Media Use: Internet/Gaming Addiction or the New Normal?

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Projecto Miudos Seguros, Porto, Portugal (Virtual)

5/2/22

Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU)

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Congress on Brain, Behavior, and Emotions, Gramado, Brazil (Virtual)

5/6/22

CME Course: Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU): Internet and Gaming Addiction or the New Normal?

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Yeshiva University, New York, NY (Virtual)

5/10/22

Adolescent Medicine Graduate Course: Am I Addicted to the Internet? Assessing and Responding to Problematic Interactive Media Use

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA (Virtual)

5/11/22

Health Effects of Media Use

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA (Virtual)

5/11/22

Digital Well-Being: Digital Rights, Access and Mental Health

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), Washington, DC (Virtual)

5/12/22

Fostering the Well-being of Children in a Digital Era

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Washington, DC (In Person)

5/19/22

Media and How it Affects Youth

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Pittsburgh Youth Mental Health Coalition and Citrone 33 Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA (In Person)

5/26/22

Connecting and Learning While Social Distancing: Young People’s Media Use and Its Impacts During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP & David Bickham, PhD
International Communication Association, Paris, France (Virtual)

6/1/22

Social Media Effects and Addiction

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Holy Family Hospital, Haverhill, MA (Virtual)

6/4/22

Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU): Internet/Gaming Addiction or the New Normal?

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA (In Person)

8/2/22

Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU)

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Office of Youth and Young Adult Services, Boston, MA (Virtual)

9/14/22

Building a Better Tech Future for Kids

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Sesame Workshop, New York, NY (In Person)

9/14/22

Family Digital Wellness: The Digital Era Family

Presenter: David Bickham, PhD
PA Family Support Alliance, 2022 PA Child Abuse Prevention Symposium, Harrisburg, PA (virtual)

9/26/22

Lunch and Learn: About Digital Wellness

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Discord, San Francisco, CA (Virtual)

10/6/22

CME Course: Identifying and Addressing Problematic Interactive Media Use

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA (Virtual)

10/12/22

Humane Technology for Children

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Sustainable Education is the Future, 3rd Annual Rakaez Conference, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)

10/12/22

Connected: Youth Health in a Digital World

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Public Health Agency of Canada and the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health, Ottawa, ONT (Virtual)

10/13/22

Digital Wellness for Digital Natives

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
WC Mepham High School, Bellmore, NY (Virtual)

10/18/22

Identifying and Addressing Problematic Interactive Media Use (Keynote)

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Ryan Seacrest Foundation, Orlando, FL (In Person)

10/26/22

The Effects of Social Media and Its Impact on Adolescents

Presenter: David Bickham, PhD
New York City Health and Hospitals, New York, NY (Virtual), Adolescent Health Conference 2022

10/26/22

Tackling Mental Health with Digital Literacy

Presenter: David Bickham, PhD
National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) (Virtual)

11/2/22

Parent & Adolescent Perspectives on Media Use: Pandemic to Present

Presenter: Libby Hunt, MA
Tufts University, Eliot Pearson Dept of Child Study and Human Development, Somerville, MA (In Person)

11/7/22

Digital Wellness

Presenter: David Bickham, PhD
Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Rockport, ME (In Person)

11/9/22

Berkeley Speaker Series: Digital Wellness

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, FL (In Person)

11/13/22

CME Course: PIMU and Roundtable Discussion: Mental Health & Media Use

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL (In Person)

11/14/22

Inside a Child’s Mind: Tech Use Through the Formative Years

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), Washington, DC (In Person)

12/1/22

Digital Wellness for Digital Natives

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
Beal Elementary School, Shrewsbury, MA (Virtual)

12/4/22

Mental Health and Social Media: Wellness strategies from the schoolroom to the armed forces

Presenter: Michael Rich, MD, MPH, FAAP
The Center for Media Literacy and NATO, Malibu, CA (virtual)

12/14/22

CME Session: Media Influences on Physical, Mental and Social Health

Presenter: David Bickham, PhD
Maine Pediatric and Behavioral Health Partnership, Portland, ME (Virtual)