1940s - Wessel

Morris A. Wessel, M.D. ’43, clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale, is spending two days a week as a developmental pediatrician at the Clifford W. Beers Child Guidance Clinic in New Haven. Throughout his career Wessel has focused on pediatric bereavement, prenatal counseling for parents, neonatal death and guidance for adolescents. In June 2003 his article on helping children and families cope with the loss of a loved one was published in Pediatrics in Review.