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Leonard Sax, MD, PhD

Family Physician

Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. is a family physician with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Over the past 22 years, he has visited more than 500 schools across the United States and worldwide, leading workshops for teachers and speaking to parents about child and adolescent development. He has published four books for parents: Why Gender Matters, Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, and The Collapse of Parenting, which was a New York Times bestseller. Dr. Sax graduated Phi Beta Kappa at age 19 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and went on to earn both a Ph.D. in psychology and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sax lives with his wife and daughter in Pennsylvania.

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