Chris Renjilian MD, MBE, FAAP, CAQSM, joins host Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez to talk about the benefits of sports when it comes to mental health and development. They focus on learning, growth and making sure kids' efforts spark joy.
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Chris Renjilian MD, MBE, FAAP, CAQSM
Dr. Chris Renjilian is a pediatrician who specializes in adolescent medicine and sports medicine. His passion is to bring strengths-based approaches to youth development into clinical practice, school settings and youth sports. Dr. Renjilian is Medical Director at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he leads the school's integrated health center in providing medical, counseling and athletic training services to more than 800 boarding and day students. As a member of the school's senior leadership team, he works to guide strategic initiatives to protect and promote student well-being. Prior to this role, Dr. Renjilian was a full-time member of the faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Orthopedics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). |
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Doug Nagel.
The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.