Dr. Yogman  recently retired from pediatric practice after 35 years and continues to teach, write and do research as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.  Currently he is a trustee on the Board of Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston , and serves on the Leadership Council of the Center on Universal Education at the Brookings Institute. He chairs the Advisory Board and was previously the Board Chair of the Boston Children’s Museum in addition to being on the board of Boston Basics.  He served as Chair of the Massachusetts American Academy of Pediatrics Child Mental Health Task Force for  twenty years  and is the past Chair of the  national American Academy of  Pediatrics  Committee  on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health where he has authored policy statements on fathers role with children, perinatal depression, the power of play, trauma, toxic stress and resilience and  addressing early childhood behavioral problems including  preschool  expulsion. He is on the advisory board of Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and Fathers Uplift. He served as a legislative appointee to the Massachusetts Advisory Board on Child Mental Health and a gubernatorial appointee to the Massachusetts Special Commission Relative to Postpartum Depression. He has conducted research on the father-child relationship, randomized trials of developmental interventions with premature infants, nutrition and behavior, playful learning, biomarkers of stress and behavioral health integration in primary care. He was one of the first pediatricians to be board certified in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics in 2002. Previously, he has been Associate Chief of the Division of Child Development under Dr. TB Brazelton at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is the editor of several books (In Support of Families, published by Harvard University Press, Affective Development in Infancy, and a biennial series Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics) and author of numerous articles and chapters on the father-infant relationship, infant diet and sleep, and parent child play.                                                                                                                 

Dr. Yogman received the outstanding children’s museum award on behalf of the Boston Children’s Museum at the White House in 2013, was awarded the Simms Mann Foundation National Whole Child Award in 2015, the AAP Senior Child Health Advocacy Award at the 2016 AAP NCE for his work on postpartum depression, and the Richmond/Coleman award at the AAP in September of 2017 for outstanding contributions to the field of child development and behavior through advocacy, public service, scientific endeavors and literature. In 2022 the Mass Medical Society (Middlesex District) named him Community Clinician of the Year. He now serves on the Climate Resilience Committee of the town of Westport Massachusetts where he provides advice on the health effects of climate change on children and adolescents.

Dr. Yogman received his undergraduate degree from Williams College and his medical degree from Yale University.  He holds a M.Sc. degree in Maternal and Child Health from Harvard School of Public Health. He is married to Dr. Elizabeth Ascher, has two grown daughters, two granddaughters, and three dogs.