Daniel j siegel biography for kids

Psychiatry professor and executive director of the Mindsight Institute

For other people named Dan Siegel, see Dan Siegel (disambiguation).

Daniel J.

Siegel (born July 17, 1957) is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.

Daniel j siegel biography for kids

Background

Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA^[1] with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry.

He also served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab and Cogfog at UCLA.^[2] He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.

Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry^[3] at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding c