About
Ron Schneebaum, MD is uniquely positioned to teach how to live a happier life. During his 40 year career as a primary care pediatrician, he regularly noted the power and importance of love for the human psyche. He also saw that when love is not felt, self-worth crumbles, and enjoyment of life decreases.
His personal observations showed him that the effects of not feeling loved can last a lifetime. These include poor self-esteem, an inner voice of constant negativity, painful emotions, and difficulty with relationships. Having seen their roots, he developed a path to turning these hurts around, one based on common sense and inner compassion. He used this approach to help his patients and their families understand and manage their inner challenges.
While serving on the Clinical Faculty at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine, he taught medical students how to apply their intellectually based academic knowledge and how to add heart to their thinking by addressing their patients with caring and compassion, imagining their challenges from their patients’ perspectives, and speaking to them in ways that would connect with who they are. These Dartmouth students appreciatively voted him the Best Teacher in Pediatrics.
Ron Schneebaum, a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, left a thriving clinical practice to teach larger audiences ways to heal and experience greater happiness. He does this through his book, Bigger Hearted: A Retired Pediatrician’s Prescriptions for Living a Happier Life, podcast, social media content, workshops, lectures, and individual consultations.
Dr. Schneebaum has two wonderful daughters and enjoys the outdoors, organic gardening, cooking, woodworking, and photography.
“The advice offered is a seamless mixture of Buddhistic compassionate detachment and Emersonian self-reliance.”
Dr. Jeffrey Kane
former Dean of Academic Affairs
Long Island University
