Betsy Busch, MD, FAAP

Dr. Busch is a pediatrician and Board-certified subspecialist in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research and clinical work has focused on children and adolescents with learning and attentional disorders.

Now in private practice, she previously served as the founding Clinical Director of the Center for Children with Special Needs at Tufts Medical Center, a multidisciplinary program for the evaluation of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. In addition to her clinical work with children, adolescents and young adults with ADHD and its co-morbid disorders, Dr. Busch consults with a variety of corporations, private organizations and educational institutions. She has expertise in state-of-the-art, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments of patients with ADHD and its comorbidities; effective classroom teaching techniques; appropriate accommodations for the classroom/workplace for children, adolescents and adults with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders; and evaluation of competence and mastery in children and adults with learning and attentional disorders. Dr. Busch is the author of many articles and book chapters on ADHD and child development, is an invited reviewer for several scholarly journals, and is a nationally-known teacher.