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David Shaffer

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David Shaffer is a world famous child psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of the NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Married to, but now estranged from, Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. Shaffer has done cutting edge research on suicide in children and youths as well as childhood schizophrenia and depression. Schaffer is chairman of the department of Child Psychiatry at the Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons. Regarded as a brilliant clinician and academician, he is also noted for his somewhat abrasive and aloof personality.