[2] He is a Director of Child Development Unit and Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Dr. Tronick along with Dr. Kristie Brandt founded the Infant-Parent Mental Health Postgraduate Certificate program Archived June 21, 2019, at the Wayback Machine.
Fellows spent 12 interactive, intensive 3-day weekends meeting every other month at the University of Massachusetts' Boston Campus, to learn first hand from world luminaries and program faculty as well as each other.
The program prepares professionals from multi-disciplinary backgrounds for certification in infant –family and early childhood mental health specialists.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in developmental psychology and neurophysiology from the University of Wisconsin in 1968.