# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shaffer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:55:41.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shaffer"
name: "David Shaffer"
slug: "david-shaffer"
description: "David Shaffer was a South African-born British-American physician and pediatrician. He was the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, now the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Shaffer was also the chief of pediatric psychiatry at New York–Presbyterian Hospital and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was the former spouse of British-American journalist Anna Wintour."
tagline: "American psychiatrist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1936-04-20"
deathDate: "2023-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.673898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  33
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shaffer"
    title: "David Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید شیفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shaffer_(psychiater)"
    title: "David Shaffer (psychiater)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2195431"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations