Faith Forum: Digital Health & Wellness
How do we raise healthy, grounded kids in an age of constant digital connection? With insight from both science and lived experience, Dr. Rich offers a thoughtful, hopeful vision for navigating screens, social media, and online culture. In a world of distraction and overload, this conversation will speak to the deeper call to persevere in love, presence, and intentional living.
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and media researcher who has become known as “The Mediatrician.” He is the Founder & Director of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The Digital Wellness Lab is on a mission to understand and promote positive and healthy digital media experiences for young people, from birth through young adulthood. Dr. Rich has a unique combination of experience and expertise in medicine and media. As “the Mediatrician,” Dr. Rich recently released The Mediatrician’s Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World, a science-backed approach to give parents the confidence they need to raise a child well (and to raise a well child) in the digital age.
