Delaney Ruston MD

Delaney Ruston, M.D. is a filmmaker, Stanford trained physician, and the creator of the award-winning films Screenagers and Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER and the author of Parenting in the Screen Age: A Guide to Calm Conversations.

A trusted expert on screen time and parenting and improving the wellbeing of today's youth, Ruston has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, PBS NewsHour, and many others. Ruston has been invited to speak at Google, The Aspen Institute, the United Nations, and conferences and schools worldwide. To date, the Screenagers movies have been seen by over 4.5 million youth and adults.

Ruston has been a researcher in interpersonal health communication at UC San Francisco and has been faculty at The University of Washington School of Medicine and Stony Brook School of Medicine. Ruston is a practicing primary care physician. Meanwhile, she has won several awards for her work in creating mental health awareness campaigns.

Delaney is the mother of two and resides in Seattle with her husband and teenage daughter.