Dr. Chester Middlebrook Pierce was an American psychiatrist who was a tenured professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was the first African-American full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was past-president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He was a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a consultant for the acclaimed educational children's television series Sesame Street. He also coined and developed the term "microaggression".