

List to launch the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago. In 2017, Suskind joined with University of Chicago economist John A.

In 2013, working with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Suskind and colleagues organized a cross-sector convening entitled "Bridging the Thirty Million Word Gap." In 2015, Suskind's Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain was published by Dutton. In 2010, Suskind broadened her focus beyond her patient population and founded the Thirty Million Words Initiative, a translational research program focused on testing and developing parent-centered interventions to boost early learning outcomes for economically disadvantaged children. In 2008, Suskind founded Project ASPIRE, a family-centered early intervention program to address this gap and help ensure that all cochlear implant patients receive the rich language exposure implicated in the success of cochlear implantation to reach their full listening and spoken language potential. In treating children born with hearing loss across the socioeconomic spectrum, Suskind became increasingly aware of a persistent gap in outcomes among her patient population, as detailed in her popular science book Thirty Million Words. In 2007, Suskind founded UChicago Medicine's Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant program. In 2002, Suskind joined UChicago Medicine as a pediatric otolaryngologist. Suskind completed her residency in otolaryngology head and neck surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and her fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at the Children's Hospital of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine. from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and her M.D. The work uses an economic model to address scale-up effects in public policies.

Suskind has also developed a line of research with celebrated economist John A. Suskind currently serves as a member on the Advisory Council of Too Small to Fail. Suskind specializes in early childhood development and has conducted research on parents and caregivers' capacities to drive foundational brain development for children ages birth to three, particularly those born into poverty. Suskind (born April 7, 1968) is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) director of UChicago Medicine's Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant program and founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago.
