Dana Suskind
Surgeon and early learning researcher
Dana Suskind is a University of Chicago surgeon and early childhood researcher who wrote Thirty Million Words for parents.
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Born 1968
About Dana Suskind
Dana Suskind holds a professorship in surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, where she also directs the pediatric cochlear implant program. She founded the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health and co-directs it. She has researched how parents and caregivers can drive brain development in children from birth to age three, particularly those born into poverty. She has also advised the Too Small to Fail initiative. Her book Thirty Million Words was published in 2015.