Robert J. Waldinger, M.D.

Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies human development across the adult lifespan, with a special emphasis on the ways that close relationships shape our lives and affect our health. He now directs a 70-year-long study of adult lives begun in the late 1930s and continuing to this day. He also sees individuals and couples in his clinical practice.