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Tristan Gorrindo M.D.

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Tristan Gorrindo, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. He is a faculty member within the MGH Center for Mental Health and the Media with a special expertise in internet media.
Gorrindo is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Editor of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. He is interested in the role technology plays in influencing normal human development, and has published in JAMA and other peer-reviewed journals papers examining the relationship between technology and mental health. He has appeared on NPR to discuss internet safety, and he has given several invited talks on the
subject of teens and technology in both the academic and private sector arenas. Gorrindo is currently the Associate Director of the Medical Student Clerkship in Psychiatry at MGH and he works with the MGH Academy, the hospital's post-graduate medical education group, exploring innovative ways in which technology can be used in medical education. Gorrindo graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University and completed his psychiatry training in adult and child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Recent Posts
Who knows your digital secrets?

Our email holds some of our most personal information. When our tech-savvy kids have access to a shared computer or our smartphones, what are the implications of their learning our secrets by reading our email?

Our email holds some of our most personal information. When our tech-savvy kids have access to a shared computer or our smartphones, what are the implications of their learning our secrets by reading our email?

Hit Send, No Wait: The dangers of a hyper-personal online life

Online communication can bring mischief and even serious trouble with peers and colleagues because it invites far more disinhibition than face-to-face conversation. It's estimated that 12% of adults said that they had shared information online that they later regretted posting. So what makes us so prone to over-sharing and what can be done about it?

Online communication can bring mischief and even serious trouble with peers and colleagues because it invites far more disinhibition than face-to-face conversation. It's estimated that 12% of adults said that they had shared information online that they later regretted posting. So what makes us so prone to over-sharing and what can be done about it?

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Being a “Digital Klutz” Is Good for Your Family

Don't be upset if you are clueless about how to set the DVR. Don't fret if your teen buys you a webcam for your birthday and tries to teach you to Skype. Being a digital klutz may be just the opening your child needs to start stepping up to the plate and feeling like a grown up.

Don't be upset if you are clueless about how to set the DVR. Don't fret if your teen buys you a webcam for your birthday and tries to teach you to Skype. Being a digital klutz may be just the opening your child needs to start stepping up to the plate and feeling like a grown up.

iPhone in the Baby Bag

New parents use technology to fight the isolation of being left at home during the day, to get parenting information they might have sought in an earlier time from relatives, and to document their babies' nursing and napping habits. But what's the impact of all this technology on the basic job of being a new parent -- creating a stable attachment with a baby?

New parents use technology to fight the isolation of being left at home during the day, to get parenting information they might have sought in an earlier time from relatives, and to document their babies' nursing and napping habits. But what's the impact of all this technology on the basic job of being a new parent -- creating a stable attachment with a baby?