Child Life & Family-Centered Care

Carolyn Kurker Gallagher

Carolyn Kurker Gallagher is a clinical instructor in child life & family-centered care at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate child life classes and is also the child life field experience coordinator for current students who will be completing practicum and internship experiences in hospital and […]

Ann Herzog

Ann Herzog is a clinical instructor in the Child Life & Family-Centered Care program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. In the Media

Paul Thayer

Dr. Paul Thayer teaches the family-centered care courses in the Child Life & Family-Centered Care program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. A clinical associate professor, his areas of expertise include grief and loss, professional ethics, and family studies. Before joining BU Wheelock, he was a pediatric hospice director. Pronouns: he/him […]

Claire White

Claire White is the program director of the Child Life & Family-Centered Care program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, which is the first academic program in the United States and the first to be endorsed by the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP). She has taught a variety of undergraduate and […]