Victor C. Strasburger

Victor C. Strasburger is an American pediatrician, author, and academic. He is the distinguished professor of pediatrics emeritus and the founding chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Early life and education Strasburger graduated from the Baltimore City College in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967. He attended Yale University where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Then, he attended Harvard Medical School. His first novel, Rounding Third & Heading Home, was published in 1974 when he was a senior in medical school.

Career After graduating from Harvard Medical, he trained at the Children's Hospital in Seattle and St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Boston Children's Hospital from 1975 to 1978. He had an internship at the University of Washington School of Medicine from 1975 to 1976.

Awards In 2000, Strasburger received the Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, for outstanding lifetime achievement in adolescent medicine. He was also the first recipient of the Holroyd-Sherry Award, given by the American Academy of Pediatrics for media advocacy work.

Selected publications

Novel

Rounding Third & Heading Home. St. Martin's Press, 1974.

Nonfiction Basic Adolescent Gynecology: An Office Guide. Baltimore: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1990. Adolescents and The Media: Medical and Psychological Impact. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. Adolescent Medicine: A Practical Guide, 2nd edition, 1998, Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins.1998. Children Adolescents, and the Media. 2nd edition. with Barbara J. Wilson and Amy B. Jordan. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009. The Death of Childhood: Reinventing the Joy of Growing Up. St. Martin's Press, 2019.

Articles

Strasburger, V. C. and Jordan, Amy B., and Donnerstein E. "Health Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents." Pediatrics vol. 125 (2010): 756-767. Strasburger, V. C. and Robinson, T. and AAP Council on Communications and Media. "Policy statement: Children, Obesity, and the Media". Pediatrics, vol. 128, no. 7 (2011): 201-208. Strasburger, V. C and Hogan, M. and Council on Communications and Media. "Policy statement: Children, Adolescents, and the Media". Pediatrics, vol. 132 (2013): 1-4. Strasburger, V. C. "Media Matter: But 'Old' Media May Matter More than "New" Media". Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, vol. 25 (2014): 643-669. Strasburger. V. C. and Donnerstein E. and Bushman B.J. " Why Don’t People Believe that Media Affect Children and Adolescents?". Pediatrics vol. 133, no. 4 (2-14): 571-574. Strasburger, V. C. "Should Babies Be Viewing Screens? The Answer is Surprisingly Complicated". Acta Paediatrica. vol. 104 (2015): 967-968. Strasburger, V. C "The Death of Childhood". The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2017. Hogan, M. J. and Strasburger, V. C. "Eating Disorders and the Media". Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 2018.