Dr. Bose Ravenel

 

About Dr. Bose

    Dr. Bose Ravenel is a pediatrician with twenty-six years experience in private practice and eleven years in academic pediatrics. A graduate of Duke University and Duke Medical School, he completed a pediatric residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and later became Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina serving in a community pediatric residency training program for eleven years before re-entering private practice in 1988. He is a member of several professional organizations of pediatricians, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He is an Emeritus member of the Physicians Resource Council, a medical advisory group for Focus on the Family, and was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the American College of Pediatricians. He has been voted by his peers into membership of Best Doctors in America 1998–1999, 2001–2002, 2003–2004, and 2007–2008.

His experience includes publishing and speaking in the areas of child discipline, parenting, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He has appeared in numerous media outlets and participated in public debates in the area of child discipline, including CBS Evening News, NBC Dateline, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, CNN Today, and a radio broadcast on ADHD at Focus on the Family. Speaking engagements include presentations on parenting at national meetings of Focus on the Family and the Christian Medical and Dental Association, as well as several talks on ADD/ADHD at national meetings of psychologists and educators.  He and popular psychologist and speaker John Rosemond co-authored The Diseasing of America’s Children – Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control (Thomas Nelson, 2008).

He has developed an innovative non-medical model for the nature of common childhood behavior syndromes usually identified as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (ODD), and early-onset Bipolar Disorder of Childhood (EOBD).  This drug-free approach to managing the behavior problems included in these categories and descriptions of successful management of children have been described in journals and at professional presentations.  His writing and speaking have developed out of recognition of the remarkable harmony among common-sense, scientific research, and Biblical principles as applied to the behavioral and learning problems of otherwise normal children.  Dr. Bose believes passionately that most children with behavior problems can be helped to learn self-control and to become self-sufficient and that relying on powerful medications to control their behaviors is an unfortunate and unnecessary trend.  Contact Dr. Bose for a possible workshop or speaking engagement. 

Outside of his professional activities, Dr. Bose is an avid trout fly fisherman and enjoys time in the North Carolina mountains with his wife, Susan.  Their daughter, Jennifer Lewis, is married and lives in Hanahan, S.C. outside of Charleston and at the time of this writing is on the way to presenting to “DaddyB” and Susan their first grand-child.  Her husband Ben works for the largest computer company for non-profits in the world and in his spare time works hard to help his in-laws survive getting into the computer world!  The latter is probably the most difficult of his two jobs.  Jennifer works for Bethany Christian Adoption Agency as a national Director of Operations.  Dr. Bose enjoys the rare privilege of sharing his profession with his son, Sam, currently practicing with him in his pediatric practice.  His wife Linda works part-time as a neonatal intensive care nurse.