He sees patients at the Adolescent/Young Adult Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston and Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is board-certified in both Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Rich came to medicine after a twelve-year career as a filmmaker (including serving as assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on Kagemusha); his current areas of health research and clinical work bring together his experience and expertise in medicine and media. Cognizant of the potency of the image and of the primacy of media as a source of information and influence, Dr. Rich studies media as a force that powerfully affects child health and health behavior and uses it as a tool for medical research, education, and health care policy.