Meredith Gansner
Cognoscenti contributor
Meredith Gansner, MD, is an attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance, an instructor in psychiatry through Harvard Medical School and a Dupont-Warren research fellow. She has published several papers on digital media use in adolescents with psychiatric illness, and has contributed to The Psychiatric Times, The Boston Globe and Slate Magazine.
Recently published
We can’t control guns or the internet. But we can watch kids for signs of extremism
Teachers, mental health professionals and parents might be our best defense for stopping hate crimes committed in the name of white supremacy, writes Meredith Ganser.
COVID And Youth Suicide: How To Navigate Colliding Crises
For parents struggling with suicidal children amidst a deadly pandemic and great uncertainty, there are no easy answers, write child psychiatrists Nancy Rappaport and Meredith Gansner.
How Intimate Relationships Can Foster Deadly Cyberbullying
Alexander Urtula died by suicide after receiving thousands of texts from his girlfriend encouraging him to end his life. Child psychiatrists Nancy Rappaport and Meredith Gansner explain the sometimes-hidden peril...