Edward Hallowell, MD

Board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, 21 years on Harvard Medical School faculty. Co-author of Driven to Distraction (with John Ratey, MD) and ADHD 2.0. Has ADHD himself and hosts the podcast Distraction. His strengths-based framing is his own clinical-observation synthesis across 40 years of practice, labeled here as expert opinion, not an established consensus the way executive-function research is.