Adams House Masters
Judith Palfrey
palfrey@fas.harvard.eduMaster
C-11 | 5-2259
Sean Palfrey
spalfrey@fas.harvard.eduMaster
C-17 | 5-2259
Judy Palfrey is the the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Children's International Pediatric Center for the Department of Medicine at the Children's Hospital, Boston. She is actively involved in community and global medicine programs. She has a special interest in programs for children with disabilities. Dr. Palfrey teaches a freshman seminar on Child Health in America. Her interests include messing around in boats, clamming and tennis. She aspires to be a silent film actress and to make a goal from the fullback position in field hockey.
Sean is a parent, a teacher, and a professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University/Boston Medical Center. He spends much of his time taking care of patients, teaching, and advocating for better child health programs and policies and the prevention of illness and sadness. He is a photographer (his website is www.palfrey.com), a writer of children's fiction, an outdoorsman and a jock. He likes hanging out with people, talking, reading, exploring, building and fixing things, and playing almost anything. You can read his list of Adams House essential activities here. Sean and Judy have three children, John, Quentin, and Katy, and two grandchildren, Jack and Emeline, any and all of whom may be found playing ball of some sort in Randolph Courtyard at unexpected times of day and night.