David Sasso, MD, MPH, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Connecticut, where he maintains a private practice in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and psychotherapy. He serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine, where he provides psychotherapy supervision for advanced child psychiatry fellows and general psychiatry residents. He is Secretary, Board Member, and Senior Fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and the founding chair of the Committee on the Arts and Humanities. 

Dr. Sasso received his MD and MPH degrees from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He trained in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he was Chief Resident in both the Adult and Child programs. He served for 9 years as Medical Director of the Child Guidance Center of Mid-Fairfield County, where he treated the Spanish-speaking population in Norwalk, CT. He is a partner at the Westport, CT multidisciplinary group practice, the Therapeutic Center for Children and Families, where he maintains a private practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is passionate about the role of the humanities and humanistic thinking in psychiatry and psychiatric education and about the importance of psychodynamic psychotherapy as a central component of psychiatric training and practice.

Prior to medical school, Dr. Sasso grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition alongside a B.S. in Biochemistry. His full length opera featuring children as the main characters and performers, "The Trio of Minuet," was premiered in 2003. His published children's choir works are performed around the country. He has worked with patients at Connecticut's state psychiatric hospital for youth to create a series of original opera scenes with the plot and music generated by the hospitalized teens themselves. These "Riverview Operas" were performed privately at the hospital and subsequently produced and presented publicly by the Hillhouse Opera Company in New Haven.

Dr. Sasso appeared as a guest on “Times Will Tell,” a podcast of The Times of Israel, discussing his music and the many intersections between psychiatry and the arts. He appeared as a featured guest on the PBS series The Common Thread, With Judy O’Bannon, discussing music, mental health, and connectedness with former Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon in the episode “We Are All From The Stars.”