Dana Suskind — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago, launched in 2017.
Founded UChicago Medicine's Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant program in 2007.
Authored best-selling books *Thirty Million Words* (2015) and *Parent Nation*, with *Human Raised* forthcoming in 2026.
Serves on the advisory council for Too Small to Fail and the advisory board of Surviving Life After a Parent Dies (SLAP'D).

Biography

Dana L. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago. A pediatric surgeon, she specializes in early childhood development.

Suskind received her M.D. from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and completed her residency in otolaryngology head and neck surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.