Pamela High, MS, MD
Dr. Pam High currently directs the Division of Developmental-Behavioral
Pediatrics (DBP) at the W Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University where she is also Program Director for both fellowship and residency training in DBP. She also Co-Directs the Hasbro Partial Hospital Program at
Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk’s Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic. Dr High’s primary areas of interest are medical education in the field of DBP for parents, students, residents, fellows and faculty, and interdisciplinary collaboration with emphasis on early childhood. She has organized the Department of
Pediatrics major CME activity, Pediatric Grand Rounds since 1995.
Dr. High is currently President of the Society of Developmental and
Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) and she chairs the American Academy of
Pediatrics’ National Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and
Dependant Care. In Rhode Island she serves on the boards of RI Kids
Count, RI Reach Out and Read and the RI American Academy of
Pediatrics and has previously served on the board of the RI Ronald
McDonald House. She was recently appointed by the governor to RI’s
Early Learning Council.
Dr High’s clinical and research interests include infant behavioral issues such as colic, sleep and feeding problems and autism, anticipatory guidance, including literacy promotion in primary care, and the interrelationship of medical and psychological problems during childhood. Clinically she sees patients and families as a member of interdisciplinary teams in the Hasbro Partial Hospitalization Program and in the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic at Women and Infants’ Hospital.
She also attends on the Hasbro inpatient service and supervises fellows in developmental assessment and care in the Hasbro Children’s
Neurodevelopment Center.