Nancy Rappaport

Who is Nancy Rappaport?

Nancy Rappaport is an American board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She serves as an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance a Harvard teaching affiliate, where she also serves as director of school-based programs. She has consulted for Cambridge Public Schools for nearly two decades, and oversees the Teen Health Center at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School.

Rappaport blogs often for the Huffington Post, and is the author of a memoir, "In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide" and "“The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students," co-authored with behavior analyst Jessica Minahan.

Rappaport lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.