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Meet Dr. Marilyn Heins
Dr. Marilyn Heins is a pediatrician, author, newspaper columnist, lecturer, wife, mother, step-mother, and grandmother. (e-mail us )
She has written over 800 parenting columns published in the Arizona Daily Star. The column originally appeared in 1989 in the Food and More section, however the Star found reader response so strong that it moved the column to the Sunday Accent section, with its larger circulation. The column is often listed in the newspaper's front section as one of the highlights of the Sunday paper.
Although much parenting advice is available on the health and care of children, Dr. Heins is one of the few experts to focus on the challenges as well as the rewards of being a parent. She stresses that parenting is NOT instinctive - the skills and strategies needed to do a good parenting job must be taught.
Dr. Heins' advice balances the needs of the parent with the needs of the child. She understands how parents and caretakers feel and helps them deal with parental concerns and stress in a warm, sincere manner. Her columns are threaded not only with astute professional observations and suggestions but anecdotes from her own parenting experiences.
Her column draws consistent positive response. She has received hundreds of fan letters about her column from a diverse range of readers, including doctors, writers, university professors, and children and she receives many requests for reprints to be sent to parents all over the world.
Host of The Parenting Show, a weekly hour-long call-in radio program on Tucson's leading talk radio station KNST, Dr. Heins reached a wide audience in southern Arizona. She has been on many TV news and feature programs as a parenting expert (tapes of both radio and TV work available on request) and is widely recognized-strangers stop her to ask parenting questions or tell her how much they appreciate her advice.
Dr. Heins is in demand as a speaker and workshop leader. She appears regularly before groups of parents including single parents and step-parents. She also speaks to grandparents, teachers, child care providers, medical professionals, students, and women's groups.
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Marilyn Heins graduated from Radcliffe College and received her M.D degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She interned in pediatrics at New York Hospital and completed a residency in pediatrics at Babies Hospital in New York. She served as Director of Pediatrics at Detroit Receiving Hospital and Director of Project PRESCAD, a federally funded program to provide comprehensive health services for medically indigent children. She was the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Vice Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at the
University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Dr. Heins was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association, served on the National Board of Medical Examiners, chaired the Committee on Medical Education of the American Hospital Association, and served as the first woman Chair of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges. She belongs to many professional organizations and is also active in community organizations focusing on women and children's health, parenting education, and women's issues.
Her special interests in pediatrics include helping parents to parent and teaching health professionals how to help parents parent. She has published 58 papers and is the senior author of Child Care/Parent Care, Doubleday, 1987, a comprehensive book on child care focusing on the needs of the parents as well as those of the child. Her latest book, ParenTips was published in 1999 and her website, parentkidsright.com, is a popular resource for parents. Dr. Heins was the producer and host of a weekly call-in radio program called The Parenting Show which aired on KNST, Tucson's leading talk radio station for two years. She has written over 800 parenting columns published in the Arizona Daily Star and currently devotes her time to writing, consulting, lecturing, and conducting workshops for parents and those who work with children.
Dr. Heins and her husband, a verterinarian, have been married for 47 years. Their daughter, who completed residencies in both internal medicine and psychiatry, is the Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Psychiatry Department, University of Michigan Medical School and also the mother of twins. Their son is a musician. Dr. Heins also has two stepsons and three step-grandsons. She and her husband enjoy both the outdoors and the performing arts.
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