TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS

  

 

 

Children's Oral Health Resources
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/topics/child.htm

Tooth decay is one of the most common infectious diseases among U.S. children, reports this center, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

Board on Children, Youth and Families
National Academies
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/

The nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.
 

Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter

The nonprofit foundation's Kids Count Data Center is an outgrowth of the child well-being report released by the foundation each summer. It contains national, state- and city-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including health.
 

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nichd.nih.gov

NICHD conducts and supports research on children, adults, families and specific populations. Its research touches all aspects of child health, from reproductive health to growth and development. NICHD is leading the National Children's Study, which is following 100,000 children from birth to age 21 to determine how their genes and environments interact to affect health and development. The first results aren't expected until at least 2010. Contact: Robert Bock, press officer, 301.496.5133; bockr@mail.nih.gov

News and Media Center
Child Welfare League of America
http://www.cwla.org/newsevents/news010913di.htm

Resources and links for talking to children about disasters.
 

"Childhood Obesity," Spring 2007
The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info3133/pubs-info

This issue of the twice-yearly journal focuses on U.S. children's high and rising rates of overweight and obesity. It presents evidence on the multiple causes, consequences and methods of dealing with the problem. The journal is published by the Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cdc.gov/

The CDC covers the spectrum of child and youth disease prevention and health issues. It provides information on birth defects; vaccination; nutrition, overweight and obesity; reproductive and sexual health; and disease outbreaks or threats. Its Web site offers state fact sheets on healthy youth. See http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/profiles/facts.htm
Contact: press office, 404.639.3286; in.the.news@cdc.gov
 

Indian Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.ihs.gov/

IHS’ mission is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives to the highest level. IHS has fact sheets on Indian populations, health disparities, diabetes, collaboration with states, and more. Contact: Thomas Sweeney, public affairs director, 301.443.3593; Thomas.Sweeney@ihs.gov
 

Add Health
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, University of North Carolina
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data

Add Health is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors.

 

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://childstats.gov

A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on education, family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, behavior, physical environment and safety. It releases the "America's Children" report each July. For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov
 

"... Substance Use and Delinquency Among High-Risk Youth," 2008
RAND Corp.
http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin/health/showab.cgi?key=2008_

Over the past two decades, studies have provided evidence for the strong link between substance use (SU) and delinquency among adolescents, although the dynamics remain unclear. This study examines four waves of data collected from high-risk youth over a 12-month period to examine the temporal association between SU and delinquency. Findings indicate that the relationship between substance abuse and delinquency is reciprocal at each time point.
 

"... Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls," 2008
RAND Corp.
http://www.rand.org/health/feature/2007/070925_martino.

Researchers identify different patterns of physical aggression from grades 7 to 11 among a sample of 1,877 youth. Results find girls less likely than boys to be in any trajectory besides the Low/No Aggression trajectory. Parental supervision, deviant peer association, academic orientation, impulsivity and emotional distress at Grade 7 are all strongly associated with the trajectory. These associations do not differ by gender. Findings strongly suggest that the processes involved in developing physical aggression in adolescence operate similarly in boys and girls.
 

"Contraceptive Use Patterns Across Teens' Sexual Relationships," 2008
Child Trends
http://childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2008-2008_02

New research from Child Trends indicates that teens in strong, positive romantic relationships are more likely to use contraception. The study finds that teens who identify their relationships as "romantic" and who spend more time with their partners are more likely to use contraceptives. Female teens who discuss contraception with their partners before sex are twice as likely to practice safe sex.
 

“The More Children, More Choices Act of 2007: Middle-Class Tax Relief for Families with Kids”
Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/

The think tank, in Washington, D.C., formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and traditional American values. Its domestic research covers economics, education, family and marriage, health care and more. In October 2007, it released Robert E. Moffit’s report, “The More Children, More Choices Act of 2007: Middle-Class Tax Relief for Families with Kids.” Contact: media affairs, 202.675.1761
 

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, HHS
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/teen_passengers.c

In August 2005, NICHD released research that found teenage drivers -- both males and females -- were more likely to tailgate and exceed the speed limit if there was a teenage male passenger in the front seat.
 

Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
http://childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health advances the effective use of public data on the health and health-related services for children, youth and families in the United States. The DRC provides access to national, state and regional data findings.

State Data on Juvenile Justice (NJDC)

National Juvenile Defender Center
http://www.njdc.info/state_data.php

This page features statutes, court rules and other policies related to juvenile justice on topics such as rules for transfer to adult court; ages of juvenile court jurisdiction; and rates of disproportionate minority confinement.
 

State Assessments
National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC)
http://www.njdc.info/assessments.php

The National Juvenile Defender Center conducts state-based assessments of access to and quality of juvenile defense counsel. These reports are part of a nationwide effort to improve juvenile indigent defense across the country. The assessments provide comprehensive examinations of the systemic and institutional barriers that prevent lawyers from providing adequate legal services to indigent children within a particular state legal system.
 

"Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines," 2007
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5630a3.htm

Although voluntary industry standards have reduced youth exposure to alcohol advertising in magazines, strengthening these standards would further reduce exposure, Georgetown University's Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth reports in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for Aug. 7, 2007.
 

Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/default.htm

WISQUARS is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data (fatal and nonfatal).
 

"Safe and Healthy Schools Initiative"
RAND Corp.
http://www.rand.org/child/projects/safeschools.html

RAND is evaluating and assisting with the Santa Barbara Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and positive youth development in this California school district.
 

Monitoring the Future
University of Michigan
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/data/data.html

Each year since 1975, researchers have surveyed a nationwide sample of high school seniors regarding smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use. Since 1991, the project has also included nationwide samples of eighth-graders and sophomores. In addition, annual follow-up surveys are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation.
  

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm

The center's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) conducts the annual, in-school survey. It examines: child injuries and accidents; tobacco, alcohol and other drug use; school-related violence; sexual behavior; and diet and physical activity.
 

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/SAMHSA
http://www.ncsacw.samhsa.gov/index.asp

NCSACW staff are experts on cross-system issues involving child welfare, substance abuse, dependency courts and tribal and family judicial systems. They collect and disseminate analysis and research to help child welfare and other professionals improve their services and policies.
 

Faststats
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm

The center provides state and territorial data and demographics on diverse health topics.
 

Statehealthfacts.org
Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.statehealthfacts.org

Statehealthfacts.org provides health and health policy data on all 50 states. It includes data on more than 450 health topics including Medicaid, Medicare, health insurance coverage, health costs and budgets, providers, minority health, women's health and HIV/AIDS.
 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors priority health-risk behaviors and the prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults. The YRBSS includes a national school-based survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.
 

National Children's Study (under way)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/index.cfm

The study examines the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. Preliminary results are not expected until 2009-2010. Contact: Robert Bock, press officer, 301.496.5133; bockr@mail.nih.gov

 

 

Thaddeus Ferber
Program Director
Forum for Youth Investment

Address:
7064 Eastern Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20012

Phone:
202.207.3333

E-mail:
thaddeus@forumfyi.org

Web:
www.forumforyouthinvestment.org...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization is dedicated to helping communities and the nation make sure all young people are ready for college, work and life. Based in Washington, D.C., it provides youth and adult leaders with information, training, network support and partnership opportunities. Its executive director is Karen Pittman.
 

 

 

Laurie Cardona
Chief of Psychology
Child Study Center
Yale University

Address:
Yale Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road, Sterling Hall of Medicine, I-Wing
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.785.3372

E-mail:
laurie.cardona@yale.edu

Web:
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/training/psychfe...

Cardona is also Chief Psychologist at Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service, and coordinator of Pediatric Psychology at Yale New Haven Hospital. Her major areas of interest include school psychology, group therapy and pediatric psychology.
 

Sue Ellen Abdalian M.D.
Head of Adolescent Medicine
Tulane University Health Sciences

Address:
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70112

Phone:
504.988.3881

E-mail:
sabdali@tulane.edu

Web:
http://cgi.photobooks.com/scripts/troll.cgi?dbase=...

Dr. Abdalian's area of expertise includes: general adolescent medicine; reproductive health care; medical care of youth with eating disorders; health care of adolescents living with HIV; and adolescent medicine trials network for HIV/AIDS interventions. She is medical director of several community-based clinics, and has a special interest in community-based adolescent health care.
 

J. Lawrence Aber Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Psychology
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

Address:
New York, NY 10053

Phone:
212.998.5410

E-mail:
la39@nyu.edu

Web:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/J._Law...

Aber is a professor of applied psychology and public policy, and he's also board chair of New York University's Institute for Human Development and Social Change. He previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where he directed the National Center for Children in Poverty. Aber's basic research examines the influence of poverty and violence, at the family and community levels, on the social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive and academic development of children and youth. An internationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, Aber has written extensively about issues. His most recent book is "Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action" (2007, APA Publications).
 

Constance Ahrons Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California

Address:
Department of Sociology
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Phone:
858.274.8943

E-mail:
cahrons@usc.edu

Web:
http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1003032.html...

Ahrons' research focuses on families in society, marriage and family therapy and gender issues. She has published several books on families and divorce, and has conducted a 20-year longitudinal study of divorced families. Other research interests have included: remarriage and stepfamilies; stresses of contemporary American families; mid-life and later life transitions; active retirement; gender issues; work and family issues; politics of "family values"; and, couples and family therapy.
 

Joseph P. Allen Ph.D.
Director
Virginia Adolescence Research Group
University of Virginia

Address:
Gilmer Hall, Room 102
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Phone:
804.982.4727

E-mail:
allen@virginia.edu

Web:
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~jpa8r...

The group conducts longitudinal studies that examine the influence of social relationships on adolescent development. Allen's research focuses on adolescent social development, family relations, peer relations & problematic behaviors (ranging from delinquency and teen pregnancy to depression and anxiety). Specific topics of Allen's research include: development of peer influence and peer pressure in adolescence; prevention of teen pregnancy; and development of autonomy and relatedness in adolescent social interactions.
 

Paula Allen-Meares Ph.D.
Dean and Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Socia
University of Michigan

Address:
1080 S. University, 4728 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.764.5347

E-mail:
pameares@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-pameares....

Allen-Meares' research interests include the tasks and functions of social workers employed in educational settings; psychopathology in children, adolescents, and families; adolescent sexuality; premature parenthood; and various aspects of social work practice.
 

Craig Anderson Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University

Address:
W112 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3180

Phone:
515.294.3118

E-mail:
caa@iastate.edu

Web:
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~caa/...

Anderson’s main research interests are in social and personality psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive psychology. His studies include depression, loneliness, shyness and aggression. Most of his current research focuses on aggression and its relationship to media violence, particularly that in movies and video games.
 

Claudia Angelelli Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portugese
San Diego State University

Address:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1234

Phone:
619.594.1678

E-mail:
claudia.angelelli@sdsu.edu

Web:
http://angelelli.sdsu.edu...

Angelelli developed the first empirically driven language proficiency and interpreter readiness test. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association and the American Translation Studies Association and as an advisor for the National Council of Interpreters in Healthcare and Hablamos Juntos.
 

Ileana Arias Ph.D.
Director
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Address:
4770 Buford Hwy, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341-3717

Phone:
404.639.3286

E-mail:
cdcinfo@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/director.htm...

The CDC established the center in 1992 as the lead federal organization for violence prevention. It has three divisions, including one on violence prevention. Before becoming the center's director, Arias was chief of the violence prevention division's Etiology and Surveillance Branch. She has research expertise in intimate partner and family violence.
 

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Psychology
Clark University

Address:
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610

Phone:
508.799.2834

E-mail:
arnett@jeffreyarnett.com

Web:
http://www.jeffreyarnett.com...

Arnett is the author of “Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties” (Oxford University Press, 2004) and “Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach” (Prentice Hall, 2004). He has and extensively researched young adults, ages 18-29.
 

Adrienne Asch Ph.D.
Professor
Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction
Yeshiva University

Address:
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033

Phone:
212.960.5400

E-mail:
asch@yu.edu

Web:
http://www.wellesley.edu/ReproIssues/homepage.html...

Asch is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction at Wellesley College. She is currently on leave and is working at Yeshiva University in New York. Her work focuses on issues regarding human reproduction and the family. Areas of interest include abortion rights; the rights of women, minorities and the disabled; prenatal testing; the parent-child relationship; and assisted reproduction such as sperm and egg donations and surrogate motherhood.
 

Christopher Auffrey Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Planning
University of Cincinnati

Address:
P.O. Box 210016
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221

Phone:
513.556.0579

E-mail:
chris.auffrey@uc.edu

Web:
http://www.daap.uc.edu/people/faculty.php?userID=a...

Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of health planning for the Health Planning/ Administration Program at the University of Cincinnati which combines professional education in health care planning and administration with the School of Planning's traditional emphasis on research program planning and policy analysis. Auffrey's areas of expertise include urban community health planning and environmental planning. Recently, he has used geographic information systems (GIS) to assess the impact of community structure on infant mortality. He also has used GIS to analyze the health effects of environmental hazards. Other recent work includes measuring the cost-effectiveness of medical procedures and evaluation of an Internet-based health information network.
 

Jerald Bachman Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
P.O. Box 1248
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.764.8354

E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...

The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
 

Robert Balfanz
Associate Research Scientist
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Social Organization of Schools

Address:
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:
410.516.8800

E-mail:
rbalfanz@csos.jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.csos.jhu.edu...

Balfanz's translates research findings into effective reforms for high-poverty secondary schools. He has published widely on secondary school reform, high school dropouts, and instructional interventions in high-poverty schools. Recent work includes "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with co-author Nettie Legters, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified. In addition, Balfanz is co-director of the Talent Development High School with Career Academies, a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores, and dropout rates.
 

Rosalind Barnett
Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University

Address:
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454

Phone:
781.736.2287

E-mail:
rbarnett@brandeis.edu

Web:
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/Scho...

Barnett's focus includes: Work-family, gender, job stress—illness relationship, dual earner couples, alternative work schedules, after-school stress. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center.
 

Theodore Beauchaine Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of WashingtonCenter on Human Development and Disability
University of Washington

Address:
Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525

Phone:
206.685.2734

E-mail:
tbeaucha@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/mrddrc/res_aff/be...

Beauchaine's research interests lie in examining the motivational and emotional substrates of psychopathology in children. He focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression, and on environmental influences on regulation of emotion and on impulsivity. He's studied how children’s developing brains respond to incentive, mild punishment and social threat.
 

Myron Belfer, M.D.
Professor
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard U. Medical School

Address:
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.432.2114

E-mail:
Myron_Belfer@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/peop...

Belfer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Senior Associate in Psychiatry at the Boston Children's Hospital. He is currently working with the World Health Organization in Geneva.
 

Sheryl A. Benton
Assistant Director of Training, Staff Psychologist
University Counseling Services
Kansas State University

Address:
232 English/Counseling Services Building
Manhattan, KS 66506

Phone:
785.532.6927

E-mail:
benton@ksu.edu

Web:
http://www.mediarelations.ksu.edu/WEB/News/MediaGu...

Benton is an expert on college mental health trends. She trains and supervises pre-doctoral psychology interns and post-doctoral psychology fellows and provides group therapy and individual psychotherapy to students.
 

Carol Berkowitz M.D.
Executive Vice Chair, Professor of Pediatrics
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Address:
1000 W. Carson St., Box 437
Torrance, CA 90509

Phone:
310.222.3091

E-mail:
carolb@pol.net

Web:
http://www.humc.edu...

Berkowitz is executive vice chair of pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., and professor of clinical pediatrics at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Her clinical interests are in general and emergency pediatrics, with a focus on child maltreatment. As president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2004-2005, she focused on setting a national agenda for child health and well-being -- including providing access to care.
 

Fred Berlin M.D.
Consultant
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University

Phone:
410.955.4150

E-mail:
fredsberlinmd@comcast.net

Web:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Psychiatry/Faculty/...

Berlin is the founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic and director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. In his clinical practice, Berlin specializes in the evaluation and treatment of adults and adolescents with psychosexual disorders including pedophilia, voyeurism and exhibitionism. He also treats patients suffering from sexual trauma. Berlin's published research has focused on reducing sexual offenses through cognitive-behavioral therapies and medication.
 

David Bickham Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Center on Media and Child Health
Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School

Address:
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.355.2000

E-mail:
cmch@childrens.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.cmch.tv/about/memberProfile.asp?id=12...

Bickham’s research focuses on the changing effects of media throughout the course of children’s development. His studies include an examination of the effects of television rating systems on children’s viewing preferences, educational television’s ability to increase children’s literacy skills and violent television’s interference with peer relationships. Bickham's work includes a 2006 study that found an association between violent video games and maladjusted social behaviors.
 

Bruce Black M.D.
Director

Address:
372 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02481

Phone:
781.239.3550

Web:
http://www.wellpsych.com/...

Dr. Black's expertise is in psychopharmacology, mood and anxiety Disorders, and Attention Deficit Disorder. In the early 90's, Dr. Black did one of the first studies of Prozac for selective mutism, when he was a researcher at the National Institutes of Mental Health.
 

Robert W. Blum M.D.
William H. Gates Sr. Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Address:
615 N. Wolfe St., Suite E4527
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone:
410.955.3384

E-mail:
rblum@jhsph.edu

Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Robert&L=Blum...

Dr. Blum’s research interests include adolescent sexuality, chronic illness and international adolescent health care issues. He was co-investigator for the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, the largest survey of American youth ever undertaken. Recently, he published a study in the American Journal of Public Health debunking the myths that race, income, and family structure can be major predictors of youth health risk behaviors.
 

Warren Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Iowa State University

Address:
N128 Lagomarcino
Ames, IA 50011-3191

Phone:
515.294.5931

E-mail:
wblumen@iastate.edu

Web:
http://www2.hs.iastate.edu/database/faculty/direct...

Blumenfeld works on reducing bullying in schools, particularly for gay and lesbian students. He is also a member of the advisory board for Iowa State's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services. His book, "Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies," asserts that sexual identity and racial roles assigned by society are basic to an understanding of gender and race. Blumenfeld has published four other books, all dealing with gay, lesbian, homophobia, diversity and social justice issues. He is currently working on two other books, one on cyber-bullying and the second investigating religious oppression and Christian privilege in the United States.
 

Deborah Both
Senior Advisor
University Of Maryland
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

Address:
School of Public Policy
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:
301.405.2790

E-mail:
dboth@excelgov.org

Web:
http://servicelearning.org/resources/links_collect...

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. Although CIRCLE conducts and funds research, not practice, the projects that it supports have practical implications for those who work to increase young people's engagement in politics and civic life.
 

Kelly Botteron M.D.
Associate Professor
Psychiatry (child psychiatry)
Washington University in St. Louis

Address:
Campus Box 8134
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Phone:
314.747.6790

E-mail:
Botteronk@wustl.edu

Web:
http://www.psychiatry.wustl.edu/c/Faculty/FacultyD...

Dr. Botteron's research investigates structural brain differences in children with affective disorders and attention deficit disorder. The populations of interest in her research include major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. Other areas of Clinical Interest: child and adolescent psychiatry, refractory mood disorders, early onset depression, mania, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette's disorder and neuropsychiatry.
 

Danah Boyd
Researcher
School of Information
University of California

Address:
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

Phone:
510.642.1464

E-mail:
dmb@sims.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://www.danah.org/...

Boyd, a graduate student at UC Berkeley and a researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, studies new media use among young people. Her dissertation looks at how youth develop a sense of individual and cultural identity in "public" online environments like LiveJournal, Xanga and MySpace. Boyd has spoken often on the topic of social networking sites.
 

Carol Boyd
Director
University of Michigan
Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Address:
204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.764.9537

E-mail:
caroboyd@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/...

Boyd's focus is in the study of women and substance abuse. She has several NIH-funded projects, all of which examine the relationship of gender to drug seeking and drug abuse prevention. She examined the circumstances under which women begin to use heroin and crack, but has expanded her focus to include cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs. Currently, Boyd is studying gender differences in prescription drug abuse among secondary and college students.
 

Claire D. Brindis Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Adolescent Health Information Center
University of California - San Francisco

Address:
3333 California St., Box 0503
San Francisco, CA 94143

Phone:
415.502.4856

E-mail:
brindis@itsa.ucsf.edu

Web:
http://nahic.ucsf.edu/...

Brindis' research interests are in the area of developing and evaluating community-based services for children and youth. Her writings in the field of adolescent pregnancy prevention were extensively utilized in the planning and implementation of various state and federal initiatives. Brindis is also Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine at UCSF, an Associate Director of the Policy Center for Middle Childhood and Adolescenc, and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Policy Research at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF.
 

Jane Delano Brown
James L. Knight Professor
Journalism and Mass Communications
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Address:
360 Carroll Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone:
919.962.4089

E-mail:
jane_brown@unc.edu

Web:
http://www.jomc.unc.edu/directories/faculty/brown....

Brown’s research focuses on how adolescents’ health, including their sexual health, is affected by the mass media and how the media can help adolescents live healthier lives. She is a principal investigator on the project “Teen Media: The Mass Media and Adolescents’ Sexual Health,” funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

Kelly D. Brownell
Professor of Psychology
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders (YCEWD)
Yale University

Address:
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
P.O Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.432.7790

E-mail:
brownell@pantheon.yale.edu

Web:
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Brownell.ht...

Brownell's research currently includes a number of issues related to eating disorders, obesity, and more generally, health psychology. Projects are underway on the effects of stress and depression on eating, the effects of the "toxic environment" that encourages overeating and physical inactivity, bias, prejudice, discrimination and obesity, cognitive predispositions to eating disorders, interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral treatments for eating disorders, disordered eating and body image problems in athletes, exercise and body weight regulation, and public policy as a means of changing eating and activity in the population.
 

Melissa J. Brymer
Manager
School Crisis and Intervention Unit (SCIU), Terrorism and Disaster Branch
National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Phone:
310.235.2633 ext. 227

E-mail:
mbrymer@mednet.ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=ctr_terr_a...

Brymer, a licensed clinical psychologist, oversees both the School Intervention Work Group and the TDB Task Forces of the NCTSN. Brymer carried out one of the first systematic school-wide psychological needs assessments conducted after a school shooting.
 

Jessie Buerlein
Project associate, Improving perinatal and infant oral health
Children's Dental Health Project

Address:
2001 L St. N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.833.8288

E-mail:
jbuerlein@cdhp.org

Web:
www.cdhp.org...

The nonprofit program works to improve oral health for children, especially those who have limited resources. Its executive director is Nancy Gralla, at ngralla@cdhp.org
 

Cynthia Bulik Ph.D.
William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Program
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Address:
10505 Neurosciences Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Phone:
919.843.1689

E-mail:
cbulik@med.unc.edu

Web:
http://www.psychiatry.unc.edu/directories/bulik.ht...

Bulik is the director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program, a comprehensive treatment program for individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders. Her current research focuses on genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to eating disorders.
 

Brad Bushman Ph.D.
Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.615.6631

E-mail:
bbushman@umich.edu

Bushman’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of human aggression, particularly its relationship to violent media, self-esteem and narcissism. Bushman is researching video game violence under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
 

Eric Caine M.D.
Professor and Director
Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide
University of Rochester

Address:
300 Crittendon Blvd. 14642
RM 1-9021H
Rochester, NY 14642

Phone:
585.275.3574

E-mail:
eric_caine@urmc.rochester.edu

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/psych/fac_staff/...

Dr. Caine's ongoing research includes: risk factors for suicide, attempted suicide and violence, plus research in suicide prevention.
 

Arthur Caplan
Head of Medical Ethics
Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania

Phone:
215.898.7136

E-mail:
caplan@mail.med.upenn.edu

Web:
http://bioethics.upenn.edu/people/?last=Caplan&fir...

Dr Caplan's research interests include: transplant research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy and general bioethics. He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
 

Michael Carlie Ph.D.
Professor
Sociology and Criminal Justice
Missouri State University

Address:
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804

Phone:
417.836.5642

E-mail:
MichaelCarlie@MissouriState.edu

Web:
http://soc-ant.missouristate.edu/3178.htm...

Carlie is a specialist in criminology/criminal justice, focusing on corrections, law enforcement and juvenile delinquency -- particularly street gangs. He has been a consultant to police departments and to the Missouri and Indiana departments of corrections. Carlie is the author of "Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs" (self-published, 2002) and has taught for six years in a large state penitentiary.
 

Prudence L. Carter Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology Department
Harvard University

Address:
504 William James Hall
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.7569

E-mail:
plcarter@wjh.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/carter...

Carter is an expert on cultural explanations for differences in social mobility among teens of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds. Her latest book, “Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White” (Oxford University Press, 2005), focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, class and gender, and their influences on culture and academic achievement among low-income African-American and Latino youths.
 

Mark Chaffin
Director of Research
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Address:
P.O. Box 26901, CHO 3B3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190

Phone:
405.271.8858

E-mail:
mark-chaffin@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://devbehavpeds.ouhsc.edu/ccanindex.asp...

The Center on Child Abuse and Neglect conducts research in several areas related to child maltreatment. These include research on child abuse fatalities in Oklahoma, children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems and their caregivers, physically abusive parents and their children, drug effected infants and their mothers, Family Preservation and Family Support programs in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Children's Services programs statewide, and prevention of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children. Chaffin has studied children with sexual behavior problems for nearly 25 years.
 

Rosemary Chalk
Director
Board on Children, Youth and Families
The National Academies

Address:
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.334.1935

E-mail:
rchalk@nas.edu

Web:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/...

Created by the National Academies in 1993, the nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.
 

Meda Chesney-Lind Ph.D.
Professor of Women's Studies
Women's Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Address:
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone:
808.956.6313

E-mail:
meda@hawaii.edu

Web:
http://www.chesneylind.com...

Chesney-Lind researches girls’ delinquency and women’s crime. She has studied women’s imprisonment; youth gangs; the sociology of gender with an emphasis on women and systems of social control; and the victimization of women and girls. Her recent books include “Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment” (New Press, 2002) and “Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype” (Routledge, 2007).
 

Rebecca Clark
Program Official
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.5133

E-mail:
rclark@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/about.cfm...

NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health. It sponsors research on development before and after birth; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.
 

Marylene Cloitre Ph.D.
Director
Institute of Trauma and Stress
NYU Child Study Center

Address:
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016

Phone:
212.263.6622

E-mail:
marylene.cloitre@med.nyu.edu

Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/cloitre.html...

Cloitre is the Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has published widely in the area of traumatic stress and has been awarded several grants from the National Institute of Health and other agencies to assess and intervene in the psychological and social effects of trauma in children and adults.
 

Patrick Cody
NCTSN Primary Media Contact
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress

Address:
National Resource Center for Child Traumatic Stress - Duke University
905 W. Main St., Suite 23-D
Durham, NC 27701

Phone:
202.965.0580

E-mail:
codycom@earthlink.net

Web:
http://www.NCTSNet.org...

Treatment centers across the U.S. are part of a coalition called the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network is funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a joint program of UCLA and Duke University, the network focuses on developmental understanding of child traumatic stress and public mental health strategies to reach the large population of children, families, and communities affected by traumatic events.
 

Jeffrey Cole
Director
Center for the Digital Future
USC Annenberg School for Communication

Address:
300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 3950
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Phone:
213.437.4433

E-mail:
digitalcenter@digitalcenter.org

Web:
http://www.digitalcenter.org...

The research center is conducting a long-term longitudinal study on the impact of computers, the Internet and related technologies on families and society. Also at the center are John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade, co-authors of the study “Got Game” (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), which suggests that gamers will be more successful in business than non-gamers.
 

Rebecca Collins Ph.D.
Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation

Address:
1700 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138

Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 7247

E-mail:
collins@rand.org

Web:
http://www.rand.org/news/experts/bios/expert_colli...

Collins studies health risk behavior. She examines associations between exposure to sexual content on television and adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, the effects of alcohol advertising on underage drinking and substance use and sexual risk behavior of young adults of people with HIV.
 

David Corwin M.D.
Professor and Division Chief
Child Protection and Family Health Division
Primary Children's Center for Safe and Healthy Families

Address:
University of Utah
100 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113

Phone:
801.588.3650

E-mail:
david.corwin@ihc.com

Web:
http://www.ihc.com/xp/ihc/primary/docsclinics/clin...

Dr. Corwin is board certified in psychiatry, child psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He directed a treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. He founded and chaired the Los Angeles Task Force on Interviewing Sexually Abused Children. He evaluates and reviews cases involving concerns about child sexual abuse, child custody and visitation, psychological trauma, and professional practice in these areas.
 

Mark Courtney Ph.D.
Executive director
Partners for Our Children
University of Washington

Address:
4516 University Way
Seattle, WA 98105-6299

Phone:
206.221.3144

E-mail:
mark.courtney@partnersforourchildren.org

Web:
http://www.partnersforourchildren.org...

In 2007, Courtney became founding executive director of the child welfare research and development center. He also joined the university's School of Social Work as the Ballmer Chair in Child Well-Being. Previously, he had been at the University of Chicago, directing its Chapin Hall Center for Children from 2001 to 2006. He has conducted extensive research on individual, family and societal contributors to the well-being of children placed in out-of-home care. Courtney is widely acknowledged as an expert on the child welfare system. His studies of youth aging out of foster care have been used extensively by legislators, agency administrators and courts around the country.
 

Philip A. Cowan
Professor of Psychology and Director
Institute of Human Development
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
1123 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.643.6095

E-mail:
pcowan@berkeley.edu

Web:
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/pcowan.htm...

Cowan's research and clinical interests center on family systems and children's development. He studies how variations in children's cognitive, social and personality development and in their adaptation to school can be understood in the context of the family. With Carolyn Pape Cowan, he examined how five domains of family life combine to predict, and sometimes affect, the ability of young children to deal with the academic and social challenges of elementary and high school: (1) parents' experiences in their families of origin; (2) parents' and children's personality characteristics; (3) the parents' marital relationship quality; (4) the way in which parents and children interact; and (5) parents' outside the family-work lives and children's outside the family relationship.
 

Allen Crocker
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Childrens Hospital
Harvard University

Address:
Childrens Hospital, Pediatrics
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.355.6509

E-mail:
allen.crocker@tch.harvard.edu

Crocker is director of the Down Syndrome Program at Children's Hospital Boston.
 

Michael Cunningham
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Tulane University

Address:
3050 Percival Stern Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118

Phone:
504.862.3308

E-mail:
mcunnin1@tulane.edu

Web:
http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/psych/facultyPages/c...

Professor Cunningham's primary research interests include examining adolescent development in diverse contexts. Specifically, he examines resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents.
 

William Damon Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Center on Adolescence
Stanford University

Address:
Cypress Hall, Bldg. C
Stanford, CA 94305-4145

Phone:
650.725.8205

E-mail:
wdamon@stanford.edu

Web:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/newin...

William Damon has written several books on moral development throughout the lifespan, and he has pioneered methods of character education for adolescents and young adults. He presently is conducting research on how today's young acquire a sense of purpose.
 

Diane DePanfilis Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work/Co-Director
Baltimore Center for Families
Ruth Young Center for Families & Children

Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.706.3609 work or 410

E-mail:
ddepanfilis@ssw.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.family.umaryland.edu...

Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and co-director of the Center for Families, an interdisciplinary center that promotes safety, health and well-being for children, families and communities. She has 30 years of experience in the child maltreatment field as a caseworker, supervisor, program manager, national trainer, consultant and researcher. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops. DePanfilis is currently leading a university research team that is evaluating the effect of early intervention to prevent child neglect and substance abuse. She is also collaborating with two Maryland Department of Social Services agencies in their evaluation of child welfare service outcomes. She is co-editor of the “Handbook for Child Protection Practice” and is a past president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pa., a master’s in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
 

Angela Diaz M.D.
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Address:
320 East 94th St., Second Floor
New York, NY 10128

Phone:
212.423.2900

E-mail:
angela.diaz@msnyhealth.org

Web:
http://www.mountsinai.org/msh/msh_program.jsp?url=...

Diaz is the director of Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. She is also director of Health Services for the Children’s Aid Society in New York City and is active in adolescent health advocacy and policy in the United States. Dr. Diaz's practice and policy work is focused on providing comprehensive mental and primary health services to trauma-affected adolescents. She has published numerous articles on topics such as child and adolescent sexual abuse, adolescents' access to health care and health services for immigrants.
 

Thomas Dishion Ph.D.
Director of Research
Child and Family Center
University of Oregon

Address:
195 West 12th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401

Phone:
541.346.3620

E-mail:
tomd@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Web:
http://cfc.uoregon.edu...

Dishion's interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents, as well as designing effective interventions and prevention programs. He is also a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oregon. He has published a book for parents on family management, and two books for professionals working with troubled children and their families.
 

Joan Dodge Ph.D.
Senior Policy Associate
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Child Development Center

Address:
3307 M St. N.W., Suite 401
Washington, DC 20007

Phone:
202.687.5054

E-mail:
dodgej@georgetown.edu

Web:
http://gucdc.georgetown.edu/cassp.html...

Joan M. Dodge, Ph.D., is a senior policy associate with the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University’s Child Development Center. She is coordinating a series of policy academies to help selected states and jurisdictions develop and implement a major child mental health policy initiative. Previously, she directed a targeted technical assistance initiative to all 50 states and a few territories, overseeing a small cadre of faculty and consultants who conducted individual needs assessments to build systems of care and improve service delivery for children and families. Previously, Dodge developed and implemented interagency program models for youth with multiple needs as well as infants and toddlers with developmental delays in Montgomery County, Md. Her background is in special education for children with emotional and behavioral disturbances. She received her doctorate from the Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland in 1982.
 

Kenneth A. Dodge Ph.D.
Director
Center for Child and Family Policy
Duke University

Address:
Box 90545
302 Towerview Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0545

Phone:
919.613.9334

E-mail:
dodge@duke.edu

Web:
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/child...

Dodge, the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies, directs the center, which aims to solve problems facing children by bringing together policy makers, practitioners and scholars from many disciplines. It's addressing issues of early childhood adversity, education policy reform and youth violence and problem behaviors. Dodge was a principal investigator on the Fast Track project, a federally funded longitudinal study of youth from age 8 to young adulthood to identify early risk factors for adolescent disorders, particularly involvement in violence and antisocial behavior. His other interests include education policy, child maltreatment and the science of child and adolescent development.
 

Bernardine Dohrn
Director
Children & Family Justice Center
Northwestern University

Address:
Law Legal Clinic
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Phone:
312.503.8576

E-mail:
cfjc@law.northwestern.edu

Web:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/doh...

Dohrn is the center's founding director and a clinical associate professor of law. She teaches, lectures and writes about children's law and justice as well as the international human rights. Dohrn was a member of the Expert Work Group for the Adoption 2002 Project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Domestic Violence Child Abuse Working Group of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the steering committee of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Committee. In the late 1960s, Dohrn was a member of the radical Weathermen group, which plotted against the U.S. government.
 

Howard Dubowitz M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Center for Child Protection
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Address:
22 South Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.328.8919 (media) or 4

E-mail:
hdubowitz@peds.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/howard__dubowitz.html...

Special Interests: Failure to Thrive; General Pediatrics; Child Abuse and Neglect. Co-wrote "Handbook for Child Protection Practice" (Sage Publications, 2004) and "Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy" (Sage Publications, 1999.)
 

Greg Duncan Ph.D.
Professor of Education
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine

Address:
Berkeley Place 2062
Irvine, CA 92697-5500

Phone:
949.824.7831

E-mail:
gduncan@uci.edu

Web:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/gduncan/gduncan_biog...

Duncan is an expert on family and neighborhood poverty and child development. He formerly worked at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dunca's research focuses on the effects of poverty on families and neighborhoods, and the intergenerational consequences of welfare use. He has investigated the concentration of persistent poverty among certain population subgroups, in particular African-Americans. Duncan and colleagues also have examined the life consequences for adolescents in families that receive at least partial income from welfare. He has written extensively about income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence and is the co-author or co-editor of several books. A former principal investigator of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.
 

Felton Earls Ph.D.
Professor of Human Behavior and Development
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health

Address:
1430 Massachusetts Ave., College House,
Fourth Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.5381

E-mail:
felton_earls@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/peop...

Among his work, Dr. Earls is the scientific co-director of The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods — a longitudinal interdisciplinary study aimed at understanding the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse and violence. (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/PHDCN/)
 

David Elkind
Professor and Chair
Child Development
Tufts University

Address:
Eliot Pearson Center
105 College Ave.
Medford, MA 02155

Phone:
617.627.3455

E-mail:
david.elkind@tufts.edu

Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=...

Elkind's expertise includes: cognitive and social development in children and adolescents; causes and effects of stress and anxiety on children, youth and families. He is a consultant to state education departments, clinics, mental health centers, government agencies and private foundations. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series, "Kids These Days." He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled "No Time for Play: The Over-Programmed Child."
 

David Fassler M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Vermont College of Medicine

Address:
C/O Otter Creek Associates, 86 Lake St.
Burlington, VT 05401

Phone:
802.865.3450

E-mail:
David.Fassler@uvm.edu

Web:
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/experts/?Page=experts.ph...

Fassler researches child and adolescent mental health issues such as the effects of stress and trauma, divorce, depression and the use of psychotropic drugs. He is the co-author of several books, including: "Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression" (Penguin Books, 1997), "Coming to America: The Kids' Book About Immigration" (Waterford, 1993).
 

Armando Favazza M.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri - Columbia

Address:
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212

Phone:
573.882.8913

E-mail:
FavazzaA@health.missouri.edu

Web:
http://www.umcpsychiatry.com/Faculty/favazza.htm...

Favazza has done extensive research on self-mutilation and skin-cutting. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists, and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
 

Barry Feld
Centennial Professor of Law
University of Minnesota

Address:
340 Mondale Hall
229 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone:
218.743.3118

E-mail:
bfeld@bigfork.net

Web:
http://www.law.umn.edu/facultyprofiles/feldb.html...

Feld teaches criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts, and education and law. In addition to his law degree, he holds a doctorate in sociology. He has written eight books and about 70 articles and book chapters on juvenile justice, focusing on serious young offenders, procedural justice in juvenile court, police interrogation of juveniles, youth sentencing policy and race. “Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court” (Oxford University Press, 1999) was named an outstanding book by the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Feld was a prosecutor in the Hennepin County (Minn.) Attorney’s Office and a co-reporter of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Juvenile Court Rules of Procedure Advisory Committee.
 

Glenn Flores M.D.
Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Health Policy
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children
Medical College of Wisconsin

Address:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Phone:
414.456.8273

E-mail:
gflores@mail.mcw.edu

Web:
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2249...

Dr. Flores speaks nationally and internationally on Latino children's health, access to health care, and culture and clinical care. His current research includes an investigation of medical interpreter errors and their clinical consequences, studies of innovative interventions for insuring uninsured children, a randomized trial of the effectiveness of parent mentors in improving childhood asthma outcomes, and a randomized trial of a culturally appropriate weight loss intervention for overweight Latino children.
 

Norman Fost M.D.
Director
Program in Medical Ethics
University of Wisconsin

Address:
600 Highland Avenue
H4/452 Clinical Science Center
Madison, WI 53792-4108

Phone:
608.263.8562

E-mail:
ncfost@facstaff.wisc.edu

Web:
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/adminmed/faculty/nfost....

Fost is a professor of pediatrics and the former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Bioethics. His current research interests include regulation of human subjects research and the use of so-called "enhancing" medical technologies such as growth hormone and anabolic steroids. He also has spoken on the issue of a federal law that allows doctors to use approved drugs and devices for unapproved procedures and patients, including kids.
 

Scott Frank
Associate Professor
Division of Public Health
Case Western Reserve University

Address:
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106

Phone:
216.368.3725

E-mail:
scott.frank@case.edu

Web:
http://epbiwww.case.edu/mph/people_faculty.html...

Frank's research areas include abstinence, behavior change, smoking cessation, substance abuse, clinical assessment of stress and the role of spirituality and religion in the medical setting.
 

Greg Fritz M.D.
Professor, Director
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Brown University

Address:
P.O. Box 426
Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St.
Providence, RI 02903

Phone:
401.444.7573

E-mail:
Gregory_Fritz@brown.edu

Web:
http://www.lifespan.org/services/childhealth/resea...

Dr. Fritz is the medical director of Bradley Hospital, as well as the media professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital. Fritz is an expert on emotional difficulties confronting children and adolescents, particularly those with asthma and other medical disorders. He is also a national authority on the shortage of child mental health professionals.
 

Frank Furstenberg Ph.D.
Chair, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Network on Transitions to Adulthood
University of Pennsylvania

Address:
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.898.6718

E-mail:
fff@pop.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.pop.upenn.edu/transad/about/index.htm...

The network examines the changing nature of early adulthood and the policies, programs and institutions that support young people as they move into adulthood. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the network documents cultural and social shifts and explores how families, government and social institutions shape the course of young adults’ development. Furstenberg's current research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being and urban education. His most recent book is "Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods." His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families and the public.
 

James Gabarino Ph.D.
Co-director
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University

Address:
G-20 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
607.225.7794

E-mail:
jg38@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/fldc/...

Garbarino’s research interests are bullying and the community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention.
 

James Garbarino Ph.D.
Maude C. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology; Professor
Psychology
Loyola University Chicago

Address:
6525 N. Sheridan Road
628 Damen Hall
Chicago, IL 60626

Phone:
773.508.3017

E-mail:
jgarbar@luc.edu

Web:
http://www.luc.edu/psychology/psyfaculty/Garbarino...

Garbarino researches depression in children, child abuse, psychological maltreatment, community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention.
 

Joseph Gauld
President
The Hyde Foundation, Hyde Schools

Address:
616 High St.
Bath, ME 04530

Phone:
207.443.7381

E-mail:
jgauld@hyde.edu

Web:
http://www.hyde.edu...

Joseph Gauld has been an educator for 53 years. He is the founder of Hyde Schools in Bath, Maine, and Woodstock, Conn.; of the Hyde Leadership Public High School in New Haven, Conn.; and the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Gauld is president of the Hyde Foundation and an authority on character development in youth, teachers, parents and families. He has written two books, “Character First” (ICS Press, 1993), and “Hyde: Preparation for Life” (Hyde Press, 2004). Gauld has appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” ABC’s “20/20” and NBC’s “Today” show, and he also serves as an educational and corporate consultant. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in mathematics from Boston University.
 

Stephen Gavazzi
Professor of Human Devel and Family Science
College of Human Ecology
Ohio State University

Address:
171B Campbell, 1787 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

Phone:
614.292.5620

E-mail:
SGavazzi@ehe.osu.edu

Gavazzi established a research program that identifies the impact of family dynamics on adolescent development and problem behavior. He also created the Growing Up FAST Program, a family-based diversion initiative for use with juvenile offenders and their families. He's working on a Web-based instrument known as the Global Risk Assessment Device, designed to measure potential threats to the development of adolescents in the juvenile justice system. GRAD is being tested in three county juvenile courts in Ohio. Female offenders exhibited higher risk than male offenders in areas such as family and peer relations, physical health, mental health, traumatic events and accountability issues.
 

Philip Genty
Clinical Professor of Law
Columbia University School of Law

Address:
435 W. 116th St.
New York, NY 10027-7297

Phone:
212.854.3250

E-mail:
pgenty@law.columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Philip_Genty...

Genty serves on the advisory group of the Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners. He has consulted on legal resource materials for incarcerated parents and works with several organizations that assist women prisoners. His research and teaching interests involve prisoners' rights, family law, appellate advocacy and professional responsibility.
 

Mark Goldstein M.D.
Chief
Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital

Address:
Adolescent Div, Yawkey 6C
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114

Phone:
617.726.2730

E-mail:
mgoldstein@partners.org

Web:
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/MGHfc/MGHfC_medspec_ado...

Dr. Goldstein is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein’s areas of interest include eating disorders, sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, health insurance, gynecology and male health.
 

Madelyn Gould Ph.D.
Professor in Clinical Public Health
Epidemiology
Columbia University

Address:
1051 Riverside Dr, Annex 216
New York, NY

Phone:
212.543.5329

E-mail:
msg5@columbia.edu

Web:
http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/sphdir/pers.asp?ID=...

Gould is also a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Gould has worked on projects that examine risk factors for teenage suicide, various aspects of cluster suicides, the impact of the media on suicide, the effect of suicide on fellow students, and the utility of telephone crisis services for teenagers. A study she worked on found that simply asking troubled students about any suicidal impulses appears to ease their distress and might make some of them less likely to try killing themselves.
 

Betsy McAlister Groves LICSW
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Director
Child Witness to Violence Project
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

Address:
91 East Concord St., Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02118

Phone:
617.414.4244

E-mail:
betsy.groves@bmc.org

Web:
http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/special/CWTV/overvie...

Betsy McAlister Groves is the author of “Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project” (Beacon Press, 2003), based on her experience as the founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center. She also is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a past fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at Harvard University. She trains police, social workers, health providers, teachers, judges and court personnel on a range of topics associated with children and violence. Groves serves on the Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. In addition, she’s been a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Judicial Institute, the producers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Groves received her master’s degree in social work from Boston University.
 

Robin H. Gurwitch Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Unviersity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Address:
Child Study Center
1100 N.E. 13th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73117

Phone:
405.271.6824, Ext. 45122

E-mail:
robin-gurwitch@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.ouhsc.edu...

Gurwitch is a clinical child psychologist and marriage and family therapist. She is also a program manager for the Terrorism and Disaster Branch of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Since the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, Gurwitch has studied the impact of trauma and disaster on children. She co-authored a treatment manual for use with young children after a trauma or disaster and a training curriculum for mental health providers who work with children after disasters.
 

Neil B. Guterman Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work

Address:
622 West 113th St.
New York, NY 10025

Phone:
212.854.5371

E-mail:
neil.guterman@columbia.edu

Web:
www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/guterman....

Neil B. Guterman, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where he teaches courses in clinical practice and children and family services. He conducts research on the prevention of physical child abuse and neglect, and adolescents’ exposures to violence outside the home, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health and several private foundations. Guterman has published and presented widely on these topics and is the author of “Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts: Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services” (Sage Publications, 2001). He has provided expert consultation on the problem of children’s exposure to violence and its prevention to federal, state and local governments, the media, private foundations and legal bodies. Guterman is the associate editor overseeing the prevention section for the APSAC Advisor, an official publication of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
 

John Hagedorn Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago

Address:
1007 W. Harrison St., M/C 141
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone:
312.996.8361

E-mail:
huk@uic.edu

Web:
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/about/bios/fellows/Jo...

Hagedorn has been studying gangs and violence for more than 15 years; his 2001 report on female gangs is at http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/jjbul2001_3_3/cont
ents.html. He co-edited "Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender" (Lake View Press, 1999) and "People and Folks: Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City" (Lake View Press, 1997). His recent work compares institutionalized gangs in Chicago to other groups of armed young men around the world.
 

Michael Haines M.S.
Director
National Social Norms Resource Center
Northern Illinois University

Address:
National Social Norms Resource
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL 60115

Phone:
815.753.9745

E-mail:
mhaines@niu.edu

Web:
http://www.socialnorms.org/Contacts/hainesvita.php...

Haines was a certified addiction counselor and has worked in the substance abuse field since 1970. His main areas of study include social norms and teen drinking and smoking. In 1990, he and his NIU staff launched a ten-year social norms campaign that cut drinking and related harm in half. More recently, Haines was senior consultant to a community coalition that was the first to successfully use social norms to reduce teen tobacco and alcohol use.
 

Neal Halfon M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Public Health; Director
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
UCLA School of Public Health

Address:
1100 Glendon Ave., Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone:
310.206.1898

E-mail:
nhalfon@ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/DropDownMenu/Staf...

Neal Halfon, M.D., MPH, is director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities at UCLA, UCLA’s Child and Family Health Program at the School of Public Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy Research. In addition, Dr. Halfon is a professor of pediatrics, community health sciences, and policy studies at UCLA’s Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Public Policy & Social Research. He led the team that developed and implemented the “2000 National Survey of Early Childhood Health,” findings of which will be published as a supplement to the journal Pediatrics this fall. Dr. Halfon serves as co-chair of the Health Services Working Group for the planned National Children’s Study, an effort being led by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of California, Davis; his master’s of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley; and completed his pediatric residency at the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, San Francisco.
 

Diane Halpern Ph.D.
Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College

Address:
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711

Phone:
909.607.9647

E-mail:
diane.halpern@claremontmckenna.edu

Web:
http://berger.claremontmckenna.edu/...

The Berger Institute offers information about a wide range of work and family issues, including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health and child development. also see: http://academic.claremontmckenna.edu/faculty/profi
le.asp?Fac=302
 

Neal Halsey
Professor and Director
International Health/Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for Vaccine Safety
Johns Hopkins University

Address:
Wolfe St W5041
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone:
410.955.6964

E-mail:
nhalsey@jhsph.edu

Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Neal&L=Halsey...

Halsey's primary research is toward the prevention of infectious diseases with the safest vaccines possible. He has conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of such vaccine-preventable diseases as hepatitis B and hepatitis A. The control of measles has been a particular focus of interest.
 

Christian Hanna
Program Director
National Farm Medicine Center
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety

Address:
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449

Phone:
715.389.3116

E-mail:
neverswimalone@charter.net

Web:
http://research.marshfieldclinic.org/children/...

Hanna is the program director for the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. The program is affiliated with the National Farm Medicine Center at the Marshfield Medical Research Foundation in Marshfield, Wis. The center provides technical assistance and research in injury control for children in rural and agricultural communities, with a focus on agricultural injuries, off-road recreation and violence. Hanna received a bachelor of science degree in natural resources from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in public health from the University of Northern Colorado. His previous work includes environmental education, community-based substance abuse prevention and rural community development. Current research includes the prevention of violence-related injuries to children in rural communities, particularly self-inflicted injury.
 

J. David Hawkins Ph.D.
Director
Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
University of Washington

Address:
9725 Third Ave., N.E., Suite 401
Seattle, WA 98115

Phone:
206.543.7655

E-mail:
jdh@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/sdrg/page3.html...

Hawkins researches the prevention and treatment of health and behavior problems among young people, including drug abuse, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, violence and school dropout. His "social development strategy" identifies risk and protective factors.
 

Kati Haycock
Director
Education Trust, Inc.

Address:
1250 H St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.293.1217, x311

E-mail:
khaycock@edtrust.org

Web:
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust...

The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through college, and focuses on closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Haycock and her colleagues are often invited by Congressional Committees to testify on educational improvement issues in both K-12 and higher education.
 

Jane Healy Ph.D.

Address:
4266 Columbine Dr
Vail, CO 81657

Phone:
home: 970.476.9351

E-mail:
janetomh@vail.net

Healy is an educational psychologist and author of "Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds - for Better and Worse," (Simon & Schuster, 1998); "Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence," (Doubleday, 1994); and "Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think," (Touchstone, 1990).
 

Scott W. Henggeler Ph.D.
Director, Family Services Research Center (FSRC)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina

Address:
171 Ashley Ave.
Charleston, SC 29425

Phone:
843.876.1800

Web:
http://www.mstservices.com/...

Henggeler developed the nationally-recognized Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model -- a family-oriented, home-based program that targets chronically violent, substance-abusing juvenile offenders 12 to 17. The program seeks to reduce criminal activity and antisocial behavior.
 

David Herzog M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychiatry
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
Harvard Medical School

Address:
55 Fruit Street
YAW 6900
Boston, MA 02114

Phone:
617.726.8470

E-mail:
info@hedc.org

Web:
http://www.hedc.org/...

The center is an interdisciplinary community of scholars dedicated to cutting-edge research, education, and public discourse in the field of eating disorders. Dr. Herzog established the center to expand knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment and prevention.
 

Erin McNamara Horvat Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Urban Education
College of Education
Temple University

Phone:
215.204.8263

E-mail:
erin.mcnamara.horvat@temple.edu

Web:
http://www.temple.edu/education/faculty/horvat_e.h...

Horvat's areas of interests include: sociology of education; access and equity; race, class and education; African American students; urban schools; and the achievement gap. She co-authored, "Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement" (Rowman and Littlefield).
 

David Huffaker
Doctoral Student
Media, Technology and Society
Northwestern University

Address:
1444 W. Berwyn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640

Phone:
202.550.4559

E-mail:
d-huffaker@northwestern.edu

Web:
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/huffa...

David Huffaker is a doctoral candidate in the media, technology and society program at Northwestern University. Huffaker researches youth and technology, focusing on the development of online youth communities, including blogs, and the design of educational technology. He has a master’s degree in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University.
 

Sylvia Hurtado
Professor, Director
UCLA
Higher Education Research Institute

Address:
3005 Moore Hall
Box 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

Phone:
310.825.1925

E-mail:
shurtado@gseis.ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html...

The Higher Education Research Institute serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies and research training in postsecondary education. HERI's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education.
 

Peter Jaffe Ph.D.
Special Advisor on Violence Prevention
Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
London Family Court Clinic

Address:
254 Pall Mall St., Suite 2F
London, Ontario, N6A5P6 CANAD

Phone:
519.679.7250, Ext. 109

E-mail:
peter@lfcc.on.ca

Web:
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/index.htm...

Jaffe is the founding director for the Center for Children and Families in the Justice System and a special adviser on violence prevention for the center. The Canadian organization is a children's mental health center specializing in issues that bring children and families into the justice system. He is a member of the clinical adjunct faculty for the department of psychology and professor for the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. Most of Jaffe's clinical work and research involves children and adolescents involved with police or the courts, either as offenders or victims of family violence or custody disputes. He also works with individuals traumatized by violence in childhood or adult relationships. He has been a trustee for the London Board of Education since 1980 where he has helped develop violence prevention programs in the school system. Jaffe was a member of the federally appointed Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women. He has co-authored numerous books, chapters and articles. Jaffe's awards include the Commemorative Medal for the 125th anniversary of the confederation of Canada for his contributions to the community. His doctorate degree is in clinical psychology from the University of Western Ontario.
 

Renee Jenkins M.D.
President
Pediatrics and Child Health
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Phone:
847.434.4000

E-mail:
rjenkins@howard.edu

Web:
http://www.aap.org/...

Jenkins serves as the 2007-2008 American Academy of Pediatrics president. Jenkins also is a professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University, an adjunct professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University, and Principal Investigator at Howard for the DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities. Adolescent health and underserved children have been the focus of Jenkins' career. She has served on many AAP task forces and committees, including the Committee on Adolescence, the Task Forces on Pediatric AIDS and Reimbursement and the Committee on Teen Pregnancy Prevention.
 

Henry Jenkins Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 14N-437
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone:
617.253.3068

E-mail:
henry3@MIT.EDU

Web:
http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/faculty/jenkins.html ...

Henry Jenkins, Ph.D., is Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He has written or edited nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including “Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture” (Routledge, 1992), “Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture” (Duke, 2003) and “From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games” (MIT, 1998). Jenkins writes monthly columns on media and cultural change for Technology Review online and Computer Games magazine. He is one of the principal investigators for the Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games. He was also a principal investigator in a collaboration with Initiative Media designed to monitor audience response to the Fox television show "American Idol,” with an eye towards developing new approaches to audience measurement. He is currently completing a book, “Convergence Culture,” which deals with the shifting relations of media producers and consumers in an age of media change. He has a master of art degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Detailed information about Jenkins and his specific research interests is available at http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/.
 

Craig Johnson Ph.D.
Founder and Director
Eating Disorders Program
Laureate Eating Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital

Address:
6655 South Yale Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74136

Phone:
918.491.5600

Web:
http://eatingdisorders.laureate.com...

Johnson is the founder and director of the eating disorders program at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital. He is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Tulsa, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and is part president of the National Eating Disorders Association.
 

Lloyd Johnston Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
426 Thompson St., Room 2311
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.763.5043

E-mail:
lloydj@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/...

The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
 

Theodore Joyce
Professor of Economics
Economics and Finance
Baruch College

Address:
Box B13/ 289
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010

Phone:
646.312.3541

E-mail:
Ted_Joyce@baruch.cuny.edu

Web:
http://www.healthcaremba.org/fac_tj.html...

Joyce's focuses are on health, healthcare policy, and the economics of infant and reproductive health. Joyce's present research includes the effect of cigarette excise taxes on maternal smoking and the impact of welfare reform on birth and abortion rates.
 

Richard Kadison M.D.
Psychiatrist, Chief of Mental Health Services
University Health Services
Harvard University

Address:
75 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.2042

E-mail:
rkadison@uhs.harvard.edu

Web:
http://huhs.harvard.edu/ClinicianDirectory/MentalH...

Kadison, a board certified child and adult psychiatrist, has been working in college mental health for the past 25 years. He wrote, “College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It” with co-author Theresa Foy DiGeronimo (Jossey-Bass, 2004).
 

Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology
Harvard University

Address:
33 Kirkland St, Room 1514
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.3870

E-mail:
jk@wjh.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.harvard.edu...

Kagan's research, on the cognitive and emotional development of a child during the first decade of life, focuses on the origins of temperament. Kagan’s research indicates that shyness and other temperamental differences in adults and children have both environmental and genetic influences.
 

Francine Kaufman M.D.
Director
Comprehensive Childhood Diabetes Center
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Address:
4650 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Phone:
323.669.4606

E-mail:
fkaufman@chla.usc.edu

Web:
http://www.usc.edu/about/health_care/kaufman.html...

Dr. Kaufman is a pediatric endocrinologist and author of "Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America - and What We Must Do to Stop It" (Bantam, 2005). A professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, her research focuses on many aspects of diabetes, including prevention, treatment and complications. She is chair of the NIH-funded STOPP-T2 trials, which investigate strategies to prevent and treat (the TODAY trial) type 2 diabetes in children and youth. She was also a principle investigator in the Diabetes Prevention Trial - type 1 and is now an investigator in TrialNet-the NIH study to try to prevent type 1 diabetes and preserve beta cell function.
 

Alan Kazdin Ph.D.
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Director
Yale Child Conduct Clinic
Yale University

Address:
P.O. Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.432.9993

E-mail:
Alan.Kazdin@yale.edu

Web:
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Kazdin.html...

Kazdin researches the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of childhood disorders, including aggression, theft, truancy, fire setting and related behaviors as well as depression, hopelessness and suicidal ideation. His team works to identify effective treatments requires research designed to understand the nature and scope of child dysfunction, parent and family factors (e.g., stress, clinical dysfunction) that contribute to adjustment, and contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, domestic violence) in which child dysfunction may be embedded.
 

Kathi Kemper M.D.
Professor
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Address:
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157

Phone:
336.716.1292

E-mail:
kkemper@wfubmc.edu

Web:
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/oprd/physdetail.htm?Physici...

Dr. Kemper is also a practitioner at the university’s Brenner Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kemper’s focus is on complementary and alternative medicinal practice and research, such as that regarding culture, spirituality, herbs and dietary supplements. Among Kemper’s findings is the Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research at Boston's Children's Hospital, the Herb and Dietary Supplement Task Force at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and the Section for Holistic and Integrative Medicine within the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her book, The Holistic Pediatrician, serves as a key reference for families and pediatric educators and clinicians.
 

Jonathan Klein
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center

Address:
Adolescent Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642

Phone:
585.275.7760

E-mail:
jonathan_klein@urmc.rochester.edu

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/s_f/KLEIN_J.HT...

Dr. Klein's research is on the organization and effectiveness of adolescent health services and on health promotion and disease prevention for children and adolescents. Klein’s ongoing studies address issues regarding adolescents such as access to health care, smoking cessation counseling, and obesity prevention.
 

Cheryl Kodjo M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics -- Adolescent Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center

Address:
Adolescent Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642

Phone:
585.275.2189

E-mail:
cheryl_kodjo@urmc.rochester.edu

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/...

Dr. Kodjo’s research focuses on adolescents: parent-adolescent communication, mental health, youth violence and access to mental health services. Kodjo is interested in the associations between mental health and youth violence. She has done extensive research on the risk factors associated with weapon carrying among adolescents.
 

Susan Kogut
Lecturer
Department of Kinesiology
University of Maryland

Address:
2356 Health & Human Performance Building
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:
301.405.2511

E-mail:
spkpe4life@msn.com

Susan Kogut teaches health and physical education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously she taught physical education and health to children in kindergarten through 12th grade in Maryland public schools for 30 years. In 1985, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education named her teacher of the year. Kogut has created several educational tools designed to get parents more involved in their children’s physical education. Kogut received her bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Towson State University in Maryland and her master’s degree in the same major from West Virginia University.
 

Harold S. Koplewicz M.D.
Director
NYU Child Study Center

Address:
NYU Child Study Center
577 First Avenue
NY, NY 10016

Phone:
212.263.6622

E-mail:
ld.Koplewicz@msnyuhealth.org

Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/koplewicz.html...

Koplewicz is the founder of the Child Study Center. He is the Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. Koplewicz is the Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Bellevue Hospital Center. He is recognized as one of the nation's premier child and adolescent psychiatrists.
 

Jill Korbin Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University

Address:
210 Mather Memorial Bldg, 11220 Bellflower Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106

Phone:
216.368.2278

E-mail:
jill.korbin@case.edu

Web:
http://www.case.edu/artsci/anth/faculty/korbin.htm...

Korbin is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. She is co-director of the Schubert Center for Child Development and of the Childhood Studies Program. She has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment and has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment; cross-cultural childrearing and child maltreatment; health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population; and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being.
 

Mindy Korol Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
Mount St. Mary's College

Address:
118 C Science Bldg.
Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
Emmitsburg, MD 21727

Phone:
301.447.6122, Ext. 4636

E-mail:
korol@msmary.edu

Web:
http://www.msmary.edu...

Mindy Korol, Ph.D., is associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. She also has a part-time private practice. Korol's research focuses on psychological trauma and stress response syndromes in children and women. Her clinical practice includes individual, couples and family therapy. She is co-author of a chapter called, Dam Break: Long-Term Follow-up of Children Exposed to the Buffalo Creek (W.Va.) Disaster, in the forthcoming book, “Helping Children Cope with Disasters,” (APA Books, June 2002). Korol received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1990 with specialized training in child and adolescent treatment. Her graduate research experience was under Dr. Bonnie Green at the University of Cincinnati's Traumatic Stress Study Center, and focused on children and their parents who lived within five miles of a nuclear waste disaster in Fernald, Ohio.
 

Teresa D. LaFromboise
Associate Professor
School of Education
Stanford University

Phone:
650.723.1202

E-mail:
lafrom@stanford.edu

Web:
www.stanford.edu/~lafrom ...

LaFromboise focuses on stress-related problems of ethnic minority youth. She is currently investigating parental drinking, parenting, and alcohol use among American Indian adolescents. She teaches seminars on Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective, American Indian Mental Health and Education, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Development.
 

David Landry
Senior Research Associate
The Alan Guttmacher Institute

Address:
120 Wall Street, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10005

Phone:
212.248.1111, Ext. 2281

E-mail:
dlandry@agi-usa.org

Web:
http://www.agi-usa.org...

Landry conducts research on domestic and international issues related to sexual and reproductive health, including sexuality education in public schools and the role of men in sexual and reproductive health.
 

Velma LaPoint Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
Howard University School of Education

Address:
Academic Support A, Room 305
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.806.6514 or 202.806.8

E-mail:
vlapoint@howard.edu

Web:
http://www.howard.edu/schooleducation/Faculty_Staf...

LaPoint researches child and adolescent development, behavioral problems among children and adolescents, African-American child and family development, and child development and public policy.
 

Danielle Laraque M.D.
Professor, Chief
Department of Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Address:
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1198
New York, NY 10029

Phone:
212.241.5866

E-mail:
danielle.laraque@mssm.edu

Web:
http://directory.mssm.edu/faculty/facultyInfo.php?...

Dr. Laraque is a professor of pediatrics and the chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her focus is injury prevention, child abuse, children with special health care needs, adolescent health risk behaviors and issues critical to health care delivery in underserved communities.
 

Edward Laumann
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
Sociology
University of Chicago

Address:
1126 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone:
773.702.8691

E-mail:
e-laumann@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://sociology.uchicago.edu/faculty/laumann/...

Laumann's research interests include organizational and economic sociology, human sexuality, political sociology and social stratification. He directed the National Health and Social Life Survey, one of the largest surveys of sexual attitudes and behaviors in the U.S. since the publication of the Kinsey Reports in the 1950's.
 

William Leaf Ph.D.

Preusser Research Group

Address:
7100 Main St.
Trumbull, CT 06611

Phone:
203.459.8700

E-mail:
wleaf@preussergroup.com

Web:
http://www.preussergroup.com/...

Preusser Research Group, Inc. is a research firm specializing in transportation, highway safety and issues related to drug and alcohol abuse. Leaf directed the group's teen longitudinal survey. The surveys provided detailed information concerning teens'licensing and driving experiences. Other current and recent projects include: a study of racial/cultural factors in pedestrian alcohol crashes; a survey of Florida parents and students concerning their new "Graduated Licensing" law; evaluation of graduated licensing in California; and evaluation of "voluntary" graduated licensing in Connecticut.
 

Barbara Lee Ph.D.
Director
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety

Address:
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449

Phone:
715.389.4999

E-mail:
lee.barbara@mcrf.mfldclin.edu

Lee directs this federally funded center to improve children's safety in rural areas, and lessen the number of agricultural injuries on U.S. farms and ranches.
 

Nettie Legters
Co-Director, Associate Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University
Talent Development High School with Career Academies (TDHS)

Address:
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:
410.516.8800

E-mail:
nlegters@csos.jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/tdhs/...

The Talent Development High School with Career Academies is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores and dropout rates. Legter's co-wrote "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with Robert Balfanz, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified.
 

Amanda Lenhart
Senior Research Specialist
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Pew Research Center

Address:
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.419.4500

E-mail:
alenhart@pewinternet.org

Web:
http://www.pewinternet.org...

Lenhart is the principal author of several studies, including “Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message Generation and the Internet’s Impact on Friendships and Family Relationships” and “The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A New Look at Internet Access and the Digital Divide.” Lenhart is an expert in the field of youth and their Internet use, as well as on topics such as the digital divide, instant messaging and blogging.
 

Richard Lerner Ph.D.
Psychologist
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Tufts University

Address:
105 College Ave.
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

Phone:
617.627.3355

E-mail:
Richard.Lerner@tufts.edu

Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=...

Lerner researches the social development in adolescence; developmental methodology; programs and policies for children, youth, and families. He wrote: "Liberty: Thriving and civic engagement among America’s youth" (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) and was a co-editor on "Handbook of Adolescent Psychology" (Wiley, 2004).
 

Jodie Levin-Epstein
Senior State Policy Analyst
Center for Law & Social Policy

Address:
1616 P St. NW, Suite.150
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.328.5174 or 202.328.5

E-mail:
jodie@clasp.org

Web:
http://www.clasp.org/...

The Center for Law and Social Policy is a public interest law firm seeking to improve economic conditions of low-income families with children. Levin-Epstein focuses on welfare initiatives and provides technical assistance to policy makers and agency staff. The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity initiative, launched in October 2007, aims to focus attention on the poor during the 2008 presidential campaign. It features a growing cache of data, analyses and reports. Its advisory council includes: Rebecca Blank, director of the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center; Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families; and William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Initial support comes from the Annie E. Casey and Eos foundations. http://www.spotlightonpoverty.com
 

Phillip Levine

Economics
Wellesley College

Address:
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481

Phone:
781.283.2162

E-mail:
plevine@wellesley.edu

Levine’s research has largely been devoted to empirical examinations of the impact of government programs and social legislation on individual and business behavior. Topics include the impact of imperfect experience rating in the unemployment insurance system on firms’ layoff behavior, whether welfare recipients move between states because of differences in welfare generosity, and the impact of abortion policy changes on pregnancy, abortion and birth. This last topic is addressed in Levine’s book, Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility (Princeton University Press, 2004), which asks whether individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases.
 

Susan Lewis
Communications Director
National Sexual Violence Resource Center

Address:
123 North Enola Drive
Enola, PA 17025

Phone:
717.728.9740

E-mail:
slewis@nsvrc.org

Web:
http://www.nsvrc.org...

The NSVRC is a comprehensive collection and distribution center for information, research and emerging policy on sexual violence intervention and prevention. The NSVRC provides an extensive online library and customized technical assistance, as well as coordinates National Sexual Assault Awareness Month initiatives.
 

Howard A. Liddle
Director
Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse

Address:
University of Miami School of Medicine
1400 NW 10th Avenue, Suite 1108
Miami, FL 33136

Phone:
305.243.6434

E-mail:
hliddle@med.miami.edu

Web:
www.med.miami.edu/ctrada...

Dr. Liddle is a family psychologist who specializes in adolescent substance abuse. He serves on expert panels in the area of adolescent substance abuse for a number of federal agencies.
 

Michael Lindsey Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.706.8781

E-mail:
mlindsey@ssw.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/faculty_and_research/...

Lindsey trained as a social worker, with a specialization in mental health services research. He studies African American males' development in high-risk communities, depressed African American youths' access to mental health services, school-based violence prevention and early interventions, and university and community partnerships.
 

Susan Linn
Instructor in Psychiatry
Judge Baker Childrens Center
Harvard University

Address:
3 Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.232.8390

E-mail:
susan_linn@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.consumingkids.com/...

Linn is an associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center. She is also co-founder of the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In Consuming Kids, she takes a look at the demographic of consumers that the advertisers call "the kid market." Also see: http://www.hmag.harvard.edu/on-line/010526.html
 

Kristin Luker Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
2240 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.4038

E-mail:
luker@socrates.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/LUKER/...

In 1994, the White House solicited her testimony on teenage pregnancy. Her book "Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Luker has received several awards, including Ford and Guggenheim fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of UCSD.
 

Paula Madrid
Director
Psychosocial Preparedness Division
National Center for Disaster Preparedness

Address:
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
722 W. 168th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.342.0555

E-mail:
pam2109@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/...

Madrid is an associate research scientist, a licensed clinical psychologist and an instructor of clinical psychology. She has presented at national and international conferences on the treatment of trauma, particularly in bilingual and minority individuals, as well as on innovative community responses following the attacks of September 11.
 

Jennifer Manlove Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate and Director
DataBank, Fertility and Family Structure Content Area
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20006

Phone:
202.362.5580

E-mail:
jmanlove@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/about2.cfm#JenM...

Manlove has worked on research projects examining teenage sexuality, pregnancy and childbearing. Her current research assesses demographic trends in sexual activity, contraceptive use and childbearing among American teens and young adults. Dr. Manlove has also been involved in several projects that assess the potential effects of community context, including welfare policies, on teenage and nonmarital childbearing in the U.S.
 

John March M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Co-director
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Duke University

Phone:
919.416.2403 (Office); Pa

E-mail:
jsmarch@acpub.duke.edu

Web:
http://www2.mc.duke.edu/pcaad/pcaad_march.htm...

March is an expert in the treatment of child and adolescent mental disorders. He holds a K24 career development award from the NIMH devoted to clinical trials methods, is a member of the Steering Committee of the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD Study and is principal investigator of several NIMH funded treatment outcome studies: the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study, Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology/Psychosocial Interventions, the Child Anxiety Management Study and of the Coordinating Center for the Treatment of Adolescent Depression Study. In addition, he has extensive experience conducting and consulting to industry in the design and implementation of Phase III and IV clinical trials in pediatric psychopharmacology.
 

Anna Mastroianni
Assistant Professor of Law and Public Health Genetics
School of Law
University of Washington

Phone:
206.616.3482

E-mail:
amastroi@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Mastroianni/...

Mastroianni teaches health law and bioethics in the School of Law, the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine. She is a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and does research on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive technologies.
 

Rebecca Maynard Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Address:
3700 Walnut Street Room 409
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.898.3558

E-mail:
rmaynard@gse.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/maynard.html...

Maynard has directed many large-scale social experiments and policy analyses on issues related to welfare policy, employment and training policy, services for teenage parents, teenage pregnancy prevention, and child care policy. She is director of an ongoing federally funded evaulation of abstinence programs. The first report is at: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/e
valabstinence.pdf
 

Donald L. McCabe
Professor
Management and Global Business
Rutgers University

Address:
111 Washington St.
Newark, NJ 07102

Phone:
973.353.1409

E-mail:
dmccabe@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Web:
http://business.rutgers.edu/display.cfm?IDNumber=1...

Over the last 12 years, McCabe has done extensive research on various aspects of student cheating. He has surveyed over 25,000 students at more than 75 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. He has also conducted a nationwide survey of U.S. high school students.
 

Joan McCord Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice
Department of Criminal Justice
Temple University

Address:
Temple University, Department of Criminal Justice
Gladfelter Hall, Room 553
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone:
215.204.8080

E-mail:
mccord@astro.temple.edu

Web:
http://astro.temple.edu/~mccord/...

McCord's teaching interests include theories of crime and deviance, violent behavior, and family and crime. Her research interests include juvenile criminality, and causes and prevention of crime. She has written books and articles on urban crime, on crime intervention, on some causes for crime, and on theories of crime.
 

Jane McGrath M.D.
State School Health Officer
Albuquerque Office of School Health

Address:
625 Silver Avenue SW, Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Phone:
505.841.5877

E-mail:
jane.mcgrath@state.nm.us

Web:
http://www.health.state.nm.us/...

Jane McGrath, M.D., is a pediatrician with certification in adolescent medicine and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. She is also the school health officer for the Albuquerque Office of School Health, where she is responsible for guiding the development of school health policy and overseeing a number of school health programs. She is a former member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on School Health and past president of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.
 

Sara McLanahan Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW)
Princeton University

Address:
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone:
609.258.5894

E-mail:
mclanaha@princeton.edu

Web:
http://crcw.princeton.edu/...

CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy.
 

Vonnie C. McLoyd
Senior Research Scient
Center for Human Growth & Development
University of Michigan

Address:
300 N. Ingalls, 10th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.764.2443

E-mail:
vcmcloyd@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.umich.edu/~chgdwww/faculty/mcloyd.html...

McLoyd, who also is a professor of psychology, focuses on the impact of economic hardship on family processes and children’s mental health and beliefs. She recently examined the effects of maternal unemployment and income loss on the mental health of single African-American mothers and their adolescent children.
 

Heino F.L. Meyer Bahlburg Ph.D.
Professor and Research Scientist
Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Columbia University

Address:
1051 Riverside Drive
NYSPI Unit 78
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.543.5299

E-mail:
meyerb@child.cpmc.columbia.edu

Web:
http://childpsych.columbia.edu/...

Meyer Bahlburg is a professor of clinical psychology, a research scientist in child psychiatry for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and a psychologist for the Psychiatry Service of New York Presbyterian Hospital. His research areas include: intersexuality and related conditions, gender identity disorder, sex hormone abnormalities, sex chromosome abnormalities, the development of gender identity and gender-related behavior and their variants as a function of biological and social factors, the development of sexuality, and sexuality and HIV/AIDS.
 

Beth Molnar
Assistant Professor
Society, Human Development and Health
Harvard University

Address:
Kresge Building, Room 601
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.432.2433

E-mail:
bmolnar@hsph.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/BethMolnar.htm...

Beth E. Molnar, Sc.D., is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her work centers on the prevalence, etiology, and mental health/behavioral consequences of child and adolescent maltreatment, and the effects of exposure to family and community violence. She will describe the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and some preliminary findings on the effects of exposure to family and community violence. She has a master’s of science degree in public health from Harvard’s School of Public Health and a bachelor’s of science in psychobiology from UCLA.
 

Kristin Moore
President and Senior Scholar
Child Trends, Inc.

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6000, ext. 6002

E-mail:
kmoore@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...

Moore is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, the effects of family structure and social change on children, the determinants and consequences of adolescent parenthood, and the effects of welfare and welfare reform on children. She is a member of the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

Janet Murray
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Literature, Communication and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology

Address:
Skiles Classroom Building, Room 335
Atlanta, GA 30332

Phone:
404.894.6202

E-mail:
janet.murray@lcc.gatech.edu

Web:
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/...

Murray is an expert on interactive narrative, story-games and interactive television. She is the author of “Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace” (Free Press, 1997), which offers a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information and entertainment environments.
 

Constance Nathanson Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Science
Sociomedical Science
Columbia University

Address:
722 W. 168th St., 9th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.305.1593

E-mail:
can2003@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/sms/faculty/nat...

Nathanson has published on gender and mortality, the social history of adolescent sexuality in the United States, teenage pregnancy, and policies in response to gun violence, smoking, and HIV/AIDS in injection drug users.
 

Barbara Needell Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Child Welfare Research Center
University of California at Berkeley

Address:
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.1893

E-mail:
bneedell@uclink.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/staff/staffbio.asp?name=n...

Needell's interests include administrative data and child welfare services; foster care reform (Family to Family Initiative); the overrepresentation of black children in the child welfare system; and infants in foster care.
 

Patrick M. O'Malley Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.764.8354

E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...

The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
 

 

Frank M. Ochberg M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Michigan State University

Address:
4211 Okemos Road, Suite 6
Okemos, MI 48864

Phone:
517.349.6333

E-mail:
ochberg@earthlink.net

Web:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ochberg/index.html; htt...

Ochberg, a psychiatrist and adjunct professor of criminal Justice at Michigan State University, has worked extensively to educate journalists about victims of trauma. He is the former director of the Michigan State Department of Mental Health and a former associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
 

David Olds Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Address:
1825 Marion St.
Denver, CO 80218

Phone:
303.864.5205

E-mail:
olds.david@tchden.org

Web:
http://www.uchsc.edu/peds/subs/prc/index.htm...

Olds researches the long-term impact of early preventive intervention on the health and development of children and their families, including the results of prenatal and infancy home visitation programs for low-income, first-time mothers. The center has been established to design, test and disseminate interventions that improve the health and development of low-income children and their families, particularly in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, unintentional injuries to children, welfare dependence and crime.
 

 

Russell Pate Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health
University of South Carolina

Address:
102 Health Sciences Building
Columbia, SC 29208

Phone:
803.777.6184

E-mail:
rpate@gwm.sc.edu

Web:
http://www.sph.sc.edu/facultystaffpages/facstaffde...

Pate is an exercise physiologist with interests in physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implications of physical activity. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers and has authored or edited five books. Pate has served in several leadership positions with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and in 1993-94 served as that organization’s president. He is a past-president of the National Coalition on Promoting Physical Activity.
 

 

Robert Patton
Program Manager
Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California

Address:
CITS North Hall 2215
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone:
805.893.5910

E-mail:
patton@cits.ucsb.edu

Web:
http://www.cits.ucsb.edu/...

CITS promotes and supports multi-disciplinary research dealing with the human and societal dimensions of information technology. Toward that end, it funds research, sponsors meetings and workshops and supports human-technology laboratory facilities. Researchers are currently studying the implications of technology in college courses.
 

Greg Payne
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Kinesiology
San Jose State University

Address:
San Jose, CA 95192

Phone:
408.924.3028

E-mail:
vgpayne@hup.sjsu.edu

Web:
www.sjsu.edu/depts/casa/hup...

Payne is chair and professor of the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University in California. He is an expert in motor development and is a member of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Task Force on Obesity, Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and has published over 100 papers and four books. His awards include the Distinguished Service Award from the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; the Southwest District AAHPERD (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) Scholar Award, and the AAHPERD Honor Award. He is the former president of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education and the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
 

James Perrin M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy
MassGeneral Hospital for Children

Address:
50 Staniford St., Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114

Phone:
617.726.8716

E-mail:
perrin.james@mgh.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.massgeneral.org/mghfc/MGHfC_forprofessi...

Dr. Perrin's research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with a recent emphasis on studies of the Supplemental Security Income Program for children and adolescents. For the American Academy of Pediatrics, he also co-chairs a committee to develop a practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committees on Maternal and Child Health under Health Care Reform and on Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, the National Commission on Childhood Disability, and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Chair, Children’s Committee). He chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities and is past president of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. A graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and has been on the pediatric faculties of the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University, with an additional appointment at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the latter institution.
 

Betty Pfefferbaum M.D.
Director
Terrorism and Disaster Branch
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network

Phone:
405.271.5121

E-mail:
betty-pfefferbaum@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=abt_main...

NCTSN has 54 sites across the country, and includes three categories: bicoastal coordinating center at UCLA and Duke Universities; intervention, development and evaluation centers (most of which are academic); and community centers. At the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, where Dr. Pfefferbaum holds the Paul and Ruth Jonas Chair, she is a professor in and the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She helped plan and organize clinical services after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and provided consultation regarding clinical and research efforts associated with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
 

Scott Poland
Director
Psychological Services
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District

Phone:
713.460.7825

E-mail:
SCOTT.POLAND@cfisd.net

Web:
http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/psych/psych.html...

Poland is a former chair and current member of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) emergency team, and was president of NASP. He was a member of the U.S. Department of Education's assistance team that advised the superintendent of the Oklahoma City schools in the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah building. He led the National Organization for Victim Assistance team that responded to the school shootings in West Paducah, Ken., and near Jonesboro, Ark., and provided onsite assistance to schools in Littleton, Colo., after the shooting at Columbine High School. He also led U.S. Department of Education violence response teams after school shootings in El Cajon and Santee, Calif. He has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on school crisis intervention.
 

William Pollack Ph.D.
Co-Director, Clinical Psychologist
Centers for Men and Young Men
Harvard University

Address:
115 Mill St.
Belmont, MA 02178

Phone:
617.855.2750

E-mail:
info@williampollack.com

Web:
http://www.williampollack.com/bio.html...

An authority on boys and men, Pollack's expertise includes boy's development and education; male violence, suicide and depression; school safety (including bullying prevention); workplace violence; and gender studies and parenting.
 

Lynn Ponton M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco

Address:
Box 0984, LPPI CAS 114
San Francisco, CA 94143

Phone:
415.664.3039

E-mail:
lynnponton@aol.com

Web:
http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty/faculty_index.asp...

Ponton is a psychoanalyst and researcher specializing in adolescent risk behavior. She is the author of the books “The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls” (E.P. Dutton, 2000) and “Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do” (Basic Books, 1997).
 

Deborah Prothrow-Stith M.D.
Director, Division of Public Health Practice and A
Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Address:
1552 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02120

Phone:
617.496.0713

E-mail:
dp-s@hsph.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/deborah-prothr...

As a physician working in inner-city hospitals and neighborhood clinics, Dr. Prothrow-Stith recognized violence as a significant public health issue that could be prevented through implementing effective public health strategies. She developed and wrote the first violence prevention curriculum for schools and communities and co-authored the first book to present the public health perspective on violence to a mass audience. She continues to develop programs and nurture partnerships with community-based programs. She has received many awards, including the World Health Organization’s 1993 World Health Day Award, and nine honorary doctorates.
 

Robert Pynoos M.D.
Co-Director and Professor of Psychology
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
University of California at Los Angeles

Address:
11150 W. Olympic Blvd.
Suite 650
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Phone:
310.235.2633

E-mail:
rpynoos@mednet.ucla.edu

Robert S. Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H., is co-director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress funded by the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). He is a professor in the UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Pynoos is also the director of the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Service and the executive director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders section. He has edited several books on post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents and authored numerous articles in professional journals. Pynoos has written extensively on child development and the impact of disaster, violence and loss on families and school communities. He is conducting several major school-based projects that are providing systematic identification, assessment and specialized interventions for high-risk children and adolescents who have been exposed to community and family violence. In addition to developing state-of-the-art clinical protocols, Pynoos has been a leader in research into the neurobiology of childhood trauma and the impact of trauma on moral development. He has received the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law award for his outstanding contribution on child witnesses to homicide, the National Organization for Victim Assistance Award for research and the American Psychiatric Association Bruno Lima Award for excellence in disaster psychiatry. In 2001, Pynoos was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Columbia University schools of Medicine and Public Health.
 

Harrison Rainie
Project Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project

Address:
1615 L St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.419.4500

E-mail:
lrainie@pewinternet.org

Web:
http://www.pewinternet.org...

The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims
 

Judith Rapoport
Researcher
Child Psychiatry Branch (CPB)
National Institutes of Health

Address:
National Institutes of Health
10 Center Drive, NIMH, Building 10 / Room 3N202
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.6080

E-mail:
rapoport@helix.nih.gov

Web:
http://gpp.nih.gov/Researchers/Members/NIMH/Judith...

Rapoport's areas of expertise include: Obsessive Compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, ADD), Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depressive Illness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Schizophrenia.
 

Irwin Redlener M.D.
President and Co-Founder
The Children's Health Fund
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Address:
317 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021

Phone:
212.535.9400

E-mail:
iredlener@chfund.org

Web:
http://www.childrenshealthfund.org...

Dr. Redlener has researched, published and spoken widely on indigent children's access to preventive, hospital and specialized medical care. The Children's Health Fund initiates and supports pediatric programs that provide health care to underserved children in a variety of urban and rural communities. Redlener is also Associate Dean of the Columbia University Mailman School Of Public Health and directs its National Center For Disaster Preparedness.
 

Gina Reiss
Vice President of Development
True Child

Address:
1731 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20009-1108

Phone:
202.462.6610

E-mail:
g.reiss@truechildhood.org

Web:
http://truechildhood.org/...

True Child works to help children break through stereotypes, particularly gender stereotypes, by raising awareness, empowering parents and educators, and shaping the media and marketplace to promote children’s healthy development. Reiss was a founder of GenderPAC in 1996. Earlier, Reiss served as a vice president of NOW-NJ and executive director of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition. She also helped found and co-chaired the Federation of Statewide LGBT Advocacy Organizations (now Equality Federation).
 

Michael Resnick M.D.
Director, Professor
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center

Address:
University Gateway Suite 260
200 Oak St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone:
612.624.9111

E-mail:
resni001@umn.edu

Web:
http://allaboutkids.umn.edu/cfahad/ ...

Resnick researches effective approaches to teenage pregnancy prevention. He conducts large-scale studies of adolescent health, risk behavior, resilience and protective factors.
 

Michael Rich M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston

Address:
300 Longwood Ave.
1 Autumn-5
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.355.5420

E-mail:
michael.rich@childrens.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/d...

Dr. Rich focuses on media as a force that affects child development, health, and behavior. In 2002, he founded the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH), which conducts research, clinical interventions and education on the effects of media on the physical, mental and social health of children and adolescents. The Society for Adolescent Medicine honored Dr. Rich in with their New Investigator Award in 1998 for the creation of Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment, a research method where child and adolescent patients make video illness narratives to show and tell their clinicians about their experience of illness. To date, VIA has been used with children and adolescents to study chronic health conditions ranging from asthma and obesity to spina bifida and HIV. (See http://www.viaproject.org).
 

Britt Rios-Ellis Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Latino Health Professionals Project (LHPP)
California State University, Long Beach

Address:
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-4902

Phone:
562.985.4127

E-mail:
bellis@csulb.edu

Web:
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/urad/papubs/experts/peo...

The LHPP is a scholarship and training project for Latinos designed to ameliorate the lack of Latinos in management positions in the health care professions. Rios-Ellis teaches courses in Latino health care access, human sexuality, community health and maternal/child health promotion. She is also the project director of the National Council for La Raza’s Latino Family HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. Rios-Ellis’ doctoral research at the University of Oregon studied the HIV/AIDS-related experience of migrant Latina adolescents.
 

Thomas Robinson M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine

Address:
1000 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Phone:
650.723.5331

E-mail:
tom.robinson@stanford.edu

Web:
http://prevention.stanford.edu/facultystaff/detail...

Dr. Robinson's research interests are child and adolescent obesity prevention and treatment, cardiovascular disease and cancer risk factor prevention, weight control, promotion of physical activity, nutrition, smoking prevention, effects of television viewing and video games on child health and behavior, health behavior change, school-based interventions and general pediatrics.
 

Alvin Rosenfeld M.D.
Psychiatrist and Author

Address:
4 E 89th Street
New York, NY 10128

Phone:
212.348.5900

Web:
http://www.hyper-parenting.com/abouttheauthors.htm...

Author of the book "The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap" (2001, with Nicole Wise), Dr. Rosenfeld has also studied "typical" families and how they teach sexual values and attitudes to their 2 - 10 year old children. He has been a contributor over the years to our thinking about sexual rearing styles and "normal" sexual development. Dr. Rosenfeld is also founder of a grass roots movement, National Family Night (www.nationalfamilynight.org) which is devoted to rebalancing family priorities.
 

Helaine Ross M.D.

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago

Phone:
773.702.1234

E-mail:
lross@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://medicine.uchicago.edu/faculty_profile/facul...

Dr. Ross serves on both the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Bioethics and the American Philosophical Association Section on Medicine and Philosophy. Her research interests are research ethics, genetics and ethics, transplant ethics, and pediatric ethics. She is currently working on an NIH funded grant on newborn screening.
 

John Santelli M.D.
Heilbrunn Professor of Clinical Populations & Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

Address:
60 Haven Ave. B-2
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.304.5634

E-mail:
js2637@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/...

Dr. Santelli has written extensively on adolescent risk behaviors, family planning, HIV/STD prevention, school-based health centers, clinical preventive services, and research ethics. He was formerly Chief of Applied Sciences in the Division of Reproductive Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the director of School and Adolescent Health Services for the Baltimore City Health Department. Dr. Santelli has served on editorial boards for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and AIDS Education and Prevention, and he chaired the effort by the Society for Adolescent Medicine to create Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research.
 

David Satcher M.D.
Director
National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine

Address:
720 Westview Drive S.W., NCPC Building, Room 301
Atlanta, GA 30310

Phone:
404.756.5740

E-mail:
mbonds@msm.edu

Web:
http://www.msm.edu/ncpc/ncpc.htm...

David Satcher, M.D., is director of the new National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Previously he was the U.S. surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. In that position, Satcher led the department’s effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. He also released surgeon general’s reports on tobacco and health; mental health – including children’s mental health; and overweight and obesity. From 1993 to 1998, Satcher was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to those jobs, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He was also professor and chairman of the department of Community Medicine and Family Practice at Morehouse and a faculty member of the University of California – Los Angeles School of Medicine and Public Health. Satcher graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse in 1963. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.
 

Ritch Savin-Williams
Professor
Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Cornell University

Address:
G77C Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401

Phone:
607.255.0849

E-mail:
rcs15@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/bio.cfm?netid=rcs...

Savin-Williams' current research interests focus on the psychological well-being of same-sex attracted youth and adults. Emphasis is placed on developmental processes among sexual minorities, especially differential developmental trajectories, identity development, relations with family, and gender nonconformity.
 

John E. Schulenberg Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.764.8354

E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...

The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
 

David Shaffer M.D.
Director and Professor
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Columbia University

Address:
Nyspi-Unit 78
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027

Phone:
212.543.5948

E-mail:
shafferd@childpsych.columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/DavidShafferM.D..h...

Dr. Shaffer is an Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. He also is the director of the Division of Child Psychiatry in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Shaffer is an active researcher in the field of children's mental health. He has directed a number of studies on suicide prevention, including a controlled examination of suicide-awareness programs that raised questions about the usefulness and safety of a purely educational approach to suicide prevention. He has been a strong advocate of school-based screening of older teenagers for depression and suicidality. Also see: http://www.teenscreen.org/cms/index.php?option=con
tent&task=view&id=54&Itemid=83
 

Charoll Shakeshaft
Professor
Foundations, Leadership and Policy Studies
Hofstra University

Address:
260 Hagedorn Hall
Hempstead, NY 11549

Phone:
516.463.5758

E-mail:
Charol.S.Shakeshaft@hofstra.edu

Web:
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/charol_s_shakesh...

Shakeshaft, an authority on school sexual abuse, says that an estimated 15 percent of students will have been sexually abused by a school staff member by the time they finish high school. This can mean anything from kissing and fondling to oral sex and intercourse. She has done research on the subject for the U.S. Department of Education.
 

Elisa Shipon-Blum M.D.
Director
Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (Smart)

Address:
505 N. Old York Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Phone:
215.887.5748

E-mail:
smartcenter@selectivemutism.org

Web:
www.selectivemutismcenter.org...

Dr. Shipon-Blum is a clinical assistant professor of psychology & family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also is a board certified family physician who specializes in Selective Mutism. Dr. Shipon-Blum has developed Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (SCAT) from her years studying & researching individuals with Selective Mutism.
 

Elisa Shipon-Blum
Executive Medical Director
Selective Mutism Group Childhood Anxiety Network (SMG~CAN)
Childhood Anxiety Network (CAN)

Address:
505 Old York Road
Jenkintown Square- Lower level
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Phone:
888.452.8747

Web:
http://selectivemutismcenter.org/...

SMART provides a comprehensive center for families and children that addresses the needs of the Selectively Mute child/teen. Shipon-Blum is also the president & director of the Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (SMART-Center) located in NE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr Shipon-Blum is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology and Family Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a board certified family physician who specializes in the childhood anxiety disorder, Selective Mutism. Dr Shipon-Blum practices in Philadelphia, PA and has dedicated years studying, researching and treating individuals with Selective Mutism. She consults worldwide with families, treating professionals and educators and has helped countless children from around the world overcome Selective Mutism.
 

Robert Shoop Ph.D.
Professor of Educational Law
Kansas State University

Address:
Dept. of Educational Law
Manhattan, KS 66506

Phone:
785.532.5533

E-mail:
rshoop@k-state.edu

Web:
http://www.mediarelations.ksu.edu/WEB/News/MediaGu...

Shoop's focus is cases involving sexual abuse between teachers and students. He is the author of "Sexual Exploitation in Schools: How to Spot It and Stop It" (Corwin Press, 2003).
 

Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan

Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.763.6201

E-mail:
ksiefert@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....

Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.
 

Brian Skotko

Harvard Medical School
Harvard University

Phone:
617.432.0442 (press)

E-mail:
brian_skotko@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.ndsccenter.org/speech_survey.asp...

Skotko authored the study, "Prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome: Mothers who continued their pregnancies evaluate their health care providers" released March 1, 2005 in the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology". For the study, Brian surveyed 2,945 mothers of children with Down syndrome from five parent support groups in five different states (CA, CO, MA, NC, RI).
 

Christian Smith
Co-Principal Investigator
National Study of Youth and Religion
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Address:
CB# 3057
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3057

Phone:
919.918.5294

E-mail:
cssmith@email.unc.edu

Web:
http://www.youthandreligion.org/...

The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project being conducted under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology. The project began in August 2001 and will continue until December 2007. The project is designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American adolescents and includes a national telephone survey of youth and their parents, as well as in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of these youth.
 

Anastasia Snyder Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Ohio State University

Address:
135 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avem
Columbus, OH 43210

Phone:
614.688.4169

E-mail:
asnyder@ehe.osu.edu

Web:
http://ehe.osu.edu...

Snyder's research focuses on children, youth and families, with two central themes: rural youth development and the changing American family. Her focus is primarily in understanding how the family institution is evolving in rural areas – and its implications for policy. Her research examines outcomes specifically for rural Native Americans, African Americans and Latino immigrants. Snyder is the principal investigator on "Education, Careers and Migration of Rural Youth" in declining areas, a federally funded, four-year study ending in 2010. Her other research includes studies of youth agricultural workers; and risk-taking behaviors involving sex and alcohol use.
 

Barbara Staggers M.D.
Director
Division of Adolescent Medicine/Teen Clinic
Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland

Address:
5400 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618

Phone:
510.428.3226

E-mail:
bstaggers@mail.cho.org

Web:
http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org...

Barbara Staggers, M.D., MPH, is director of Adolescent Medicine and the Health Professions Internship Partnership at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Calif. She served for six years on the National Committee on Adolescence for the American Academy of Pediatrics; her work included the development of the pediatrics residency training guidelines in adolescent health care. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a National Child Labor Committee Award; National Violence Prevention Council Angel of Peace Award; and Alumna of the Year, School of Public Health, University of Calfornia, Berkeley. She attained her bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley, her medical degree from UC San Francisco and a master’s degree in health education from UC Berkeley.
 

Laurence Steinberg Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Temple University

Address:
1701 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone:
215.204.7485

E-mail:
lds@temple.edu

Web:
www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Steinberg/in...

A nationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence, Steinberg researches topics including parent-child relationships, employment, high school reform and juvenile justice. His work has been funded by public and private organizations, including the federal departments of education and justice, the MacArthur and William T. Grant foundations and the Lilly Endowment. Steinberg has been a frequent consultant to state and federal agencies and lawmakers on child labor, secondary education, and juvenile justice policy. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including "Adolescence" (McGraw-Hill, 2005), a leading college textbook now in its seventh edition. Steinberg is president of the Society for Research on Adolescence; he also heads the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.
 

William Stixrud Ph.D.

Address:
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 300
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone:
301.565.0534

E-mail:
wstixrud@stixrud.com

Web:
http://stixrud.com/...

Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist and director of William Stixrud and Associates in Silver Spring, Md., a group practice specializing in the neuropsychological evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with learning, attentional/executive, and/or emotional disorders. He is a member of the clinical supervisory faculty of the Children’s National Medical Center and holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine.
 

William Strauss
Partner and Co-Founder
LifeCourse Associates

Address:
9080 Eaton Park Rd.
Great Falls, VA 22066

Phone:
703.821.0871

E-mail:
strauss@lifecourse.com

Web:
http://www.lifecourse.com/about/williamstrauss.htm...

Strauss is an expert on American generations and has advised numerous public and private organizations about generational trends, including MTV, Disney Imagineering, Procter & Gamble, the Ford Motor Company, national college and graduate school admissions organizations, and the U.S. armed forces. His book “Millennials Rising” (Vintage, 2000), co-authored by Neil Howe, makes the argument that today’s teens and kids are new, post-Generation-X, and on the whole are doing better than most adults think. The most recent book by Strauss and Howe is “Millennials Go to College” (American Association of Collegiate Registrars, 2003).
 

Ruth Striegel-Moore Ph.D.
professor and chairwoman
Psychology
Wesleyan University

Address:
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459

Phone:
860.685.2328

E-mail:
rstriegel@wesleyan.edu

Web:
https://wesep.wesleyan.edu/cgi-perl/faculty/facult...

Striegel-Moore's areas of focus are etiology and the treatment of eating disorders, and gender and psychopathology. She has done studies about minorities and eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia.
 

Carola Suárez-Orozco Ph.D.
Co-Director of Immigration Studies, Chair and Professor
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

Address:
239 Greene St., East Building Room 408
New York, NY 10003

Phone:
212.998.5282

E-mail:
cso2@nyu.edu

Web:
http://education.nyu.edu/immigration/team/carola.h...

Suárez-Orozco is the Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU. Prior to moving to NYU, Dr. Suárez-Orozco co-directed the Harvard Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study, an interdisciplinary research project examining the adaptations of Central American, Chinese, Dominican, Haitian, and Mexican immigrant adolescents to American schools. She is the author of Children of Immigration and numerous other books and articles.
 

Mercer L. Sullivan Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
Rutgers University

Address:
123 Washington St.
Newark, NJ 07102

Phone:
973.353.5931

E-mail:
mercers@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Web:
http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/rscj/Pages/Faculty/s...

Sullivan is an urban anthropologist who has conducted many studies with inner-city adolescents. He has used comparative ethnographic data analysis to explore the role of neighborhood and other social context features on adolescent development. Sullivan is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, Newark (N.J.) campus. Sullivan’s book, “Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City,” was originally published by Cornell University Press in 1989 and has been reprinted several times. He has written extensively about delinquency and youth crime; the male role in teenage pregnancy and parenting; and community development efforts in inner-city neighborhoods. He was a member of the Panel on Youth Crime convened by the National Research Council from 1997 to 2001 and is preparing a congressionally mandated case study of the 1999 school shooting incident in Rockdale County, Ga., in which six students were wounded. Sullivan has worked with many public and private agencies, including the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institute of Justice. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research and the Selection Committee for Faculty Scholars Program of the William T. Grant Foundation. Sullivan is the editor of the quarterly Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University and his bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
 

Andrew Sum
Director, Professor of Economics
Center for Labor Market Studies
Northeastern University

Address:
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.373.2242

E-mail:
a.sum@neu.edu

Web:
http://www.economics.neu.edu/people/sum/...

Sum is an expert in employment trends among young people and has researched employment policymaking, planning and evaluation at the local, state and national level for nearly three decades. His recent reports include: “The Age Twist in Employment Rates in the U.S., 2000–2004: The Steep Tilt Against Young Workers in the Nation’s Labor Markets” (2005, with Ishwar Khatiwada and Sheila Palma); “The Paradox of Rising Teen Joblessness in An Expanding Labor Market: The Absence of Teen Employment Growth in the National Jobs Recovery of 2003–2004” (2005, with Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin and Sheila Palma); and “The Literacy Proficiencies of the Nation’s Immigrant Population and their Labor Market and Social Consequences” (2004, with Irwin Kirsch and Kentaro Yamamoto).
 

Gregory Thomas M.S.
Director
Program on School Preparedness and Planning
National Center for Disaster Preparedness

Address:
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
722 West 168th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.342.0408

E-mail:
gat2101@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/personnel.htm...

Thomas works with city, state and federal education and emergency management officials to assist schools and other child congregate facilities in the assessment and improvement of their current level of emergency preparedness. In New York, Thomas worked with officials from state and federal law enforcement agencies to address security and disaster-related issues that arose for the many schools in the lower Manhattan area that were affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the School Crisis and Intervention Unit of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
 

Michael Thompson
Psychologist

Phone:
781.646.5230

Web:
http://www.michaelthompson-phd.com/...

Thompson is a psychologist specializing in children and families. He is the clinical consultant to The Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than two hundred fifty schools across the United States. He co-wrote, "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" (Ballantine Books, 1999).
 

Christopher Thurber Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Counseling
Phillips Exeter Academy

Address:
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833

Phone:
603.722.4311

E-mail:
chris@campspirit.com

Web:
http://campspirit.com/contactchris.html...

Thurber conducts staff training and consultation with camps in the U.S. and Canada and is the co-author of the “Summer Camp Handbook,” a resource for new campers and families (Perspective Publishing, March 2000).
 

Patrick Tolan Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Juvenile Research
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School

Address:
CSB-840 S. Wood St., Room 345G
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone:
312.413.1893

E-mail:
Tolan@uic.edu

Web:
http://www.psych.uic.edu/faculty/tolan.htm...

Patrick Tolan, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tolan’s major interests include the development of urban children and families from a developmental-ecological perspective; prediction and prevention of antisocial and violent behavior; family systems theory; and adolescence. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified supervisor for family therapy training. Tolan holds positions on several national and international boards and committees, including the MacArthur Foundation’s Cook County Juvenile Court Clinical Evaluation Services Initiative; the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence; and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Youth Violence’s program on Blueprints for Violence Prevention/Reduction. He also works on community action initiatives such as the Attorney General’s Safe to Learn Initiative and the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. He is author or co-author of more than 80 books, monographs, articles and technical reports. He is a fellow of three divisions of the American Psychological Association and of the International Society for Research on Aggression. He is a regular consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, among others. He is the principal investigator on three federal grants and co-investigator on four others. Tolan earned a bachelor’s degree at Temple University, and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago in clinical research on adolescence.
 

Norida Torriente
Assistant Public Relations Director
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions

Address:
401 Wythe St.
Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone:
703.797.6059

E-mail:
ntorriente@nachri.org

Web:
www.childrenshospitals.net...

The 215-member organization, based in Alexandria, Va., conducts public policy research, analysis, education and advocacy on behalf of children. Its online media center offers extensive data on children’s health, as well as an interactive expert database of more than 500 contacts.
 

Leonardo Trasande M.D.
Instructor
Departments of Pediatrics and Community and Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Address:
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box1512
New York, NY 10029

Phone:
212.241.8029

E-mail:
leo.trasande@mssm.edu

Web:
http://www.childenvironment.org...

Leonardo Trasande, M.D., is a pediatrician and environmental health specialist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He also is the assistant director for the school’s Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, a policy research center that works to protect children from environmental threats. After graduating from Harvard College cum laude in chemistry in 1994, Trasande earned his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He later served as a Dyson Foundation health policy fellow to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on environmental and child health issues. In addition to his work at Mount Sinai, he practices clinically in New York and in Boston, where he is a faculty member of the pediatrics department at Harvard Medical School.
 

Eric Trupin Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Division Public Behavioral Health & Justice Policy
University of Washington School of Medicine

Address:
146 N. Canal St., Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98103

Phone:
206.685.2085

E-mail:
trupin@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://www.uwpsychiatry.org/...

Eric Trupin, Ph.D., is professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. A child psychologist, Trupin directs the university’s division of public behavioral health and justice policy, which runs clinical, research and training programs focused on youths and adults who manifest mental illness and substance abuse and are involved with the justice system. He conducts research on topics including the prevalence and prevention of mental illness in children and adolescents, and the involvement of mentally ill youth and adults in the criminal justice system. For 12 years, Trupin directed the Division of Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. From 1993 to1994, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working with the U.S. Congress. Trupin received his bachelor’s degree from City College, N. Y., and his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.
 

James Trussell
Director, Office of Population Research

Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013

Phone:
609.258.4946

E-mail:
trussell@princeton.edu

Web:
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/trussell/...

Trussell also is the John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs; director of the Program in Population Studies; and professor of Economics and Public Affairs. His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure and the cost-effectiveness of contraception. He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion; in addition to his research on this topic, he maintains an emergency contraception website (not-2-late.com) and designed and launched a toll-free emergency contraception hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE).
 

M. Belinda Tucker Ph.D.
Professor
Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Address:
SBG Box 62 - NPI
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Phone:
310.825.0285

E-mail:
mbtucker@ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/programs/tucker.ht...

M. Belinda Tucker is a social psychologist at the University of California at Los Angeles. Tucker has written numerous articles on marriage and personal relationships, including the Russell Sage Foundation volume, "The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans: Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications." She has participated in the direction of a number of landmark studies, including the National Survey of Black Americans in 1979. In collaboration with anthropologist Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, she conducted a 21-city national survey that examined the social context and social and psychological correlates of family formation behaviors and attitudes. They are currently conducting a five-year follow-up to that study. She is also currently working with Keith Kernan on an ethnographic examination of transition to adulthood in three culturally distinct groups of African-descended adolescents in Los Angeles. Other research interests include inter-ethnic relations and the psychosocial impact of cancer. Tucker serves on a number of national panels, including the Family Research Consortium III and the African American Mental Health Research Program Advisory Board. She received her undergraduate training at the University of Chicago and her doctorate from the University of Michigan.
 

Sherry R. Turkle
Professor and Director
Social Studies of Science and Technology/Initiative on Technology and Self
MIT

Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room E51-296C
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone:
617.253.4068

E-mail:
sturkle@mit.edu

Web:
http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www...

Turkle is the author of “Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” (Simon & Schuster, 1995). She is an expert on personal identity in a digital world and on gender and the Internet.
 

Jean Twenge
Professor
Psychology
San Diego State University

Address:
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4611

Phone:
619.594.4437

E-mail:
jtwenge@sunstroke.sdsu.ed

Web:
http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/faculty/twenge.html...

Twenge’s studies include gender roles, social rejection and generational differences. Her most recent book, "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before," uses data from 1.3 million young people regarding issues such as self-esteem, individualism, anxiety, and sexuality. The book proposes that young people today are less concerned with social approval and society's standards than were past generations.
 

J. Richard Udry Ph.D.
Kenan Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Sociology
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Address:
403D University Square East
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone:
919.966.2829

E-mail:
udry@unc.edu

Web:
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/...

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors. Udry's main research interest is the integration of biological and sociological models of human behavior, including studies of adult women's gendered behavior, sexual behavior and adolescents.
 

Luis Vargas Ph.D.
Assocaite Professor
Psychiatry
University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Address:
MSC 10 8000
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Phone:
505.272.2948

E-mail:
lvargas@salud.unm.edu

Web:
http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/faculty/vargas.h...

Luis A. Vargas, Ph.D., is a clinical child psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, where he was previously the director of the psychology internship program for 14 years. During those years, the internship program had a strong focus on training psychology interns to be culturally responsive and to serve culturally diverse patient populations within the public sector. He is co-editor of “Working with Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Minority Children and Adolescents” (Jossey-Bass, 1992), and a co-author with Joan D. Koss-Chioino of “Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context” (Jossey-Bass, 1999).
 

Eric M. Vernberg Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Director
Clinical Child Psychology Program
University of Kansas

Address:
2006 Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Phone:
785.864.3582

E-mail:
vernberg@ku.edu

Web:
http://www.ku.edu/~clchild/faculty/vernberg.shtml...

Vernberg's research initiatives include children's recovery from severely traumatic experiences such as terrorism and natural disasters. He was on faculty at the University of Miami when Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992 and subsequently led a research team that conducted a longitudinal study of children's post-hurricane adjustment.
 

Francisco Villarruel Ph.D.
Professor of Family and Child Ecology
Michigan State University

Address:
1407 S. Harrison Road
East Lansing, MI 48823-5286

Phone:
517.432.1317

E-mail:
fvilla@msu.edu

Web:
http://www.msu.edu/~fvilla/...

Villarruel also is a senior research associate with MSU's Institute for Children, Youth and Families and the Julian Samora Research Institute, a policy research center focused on Latinos. Villarruel studies Latino youth and families, positive youth development, and developmental contextualism. He co-wrote "Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System" (2004), which looked at factors underlying Latinos' overrepresentation and the special problems associated with prosecuting and treating substance abusers. Villarruel was co-principal investigator of a study that found Latino and Latina youth receive disparate and more punitive treatment than their white peers charged with the same types of offenses. The 2002 report, “¿Dónde Está la Justicia?” is available online at: www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/latino_rpt/index.html
 

Michael Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus
School of Law
Stanford University

Address:
Crown Quad 215
Stanford, CA 94305

Phone:
650.723.0322

E-mail:
mwald@stanford.edu

Web:
http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/wald...

Wald has had a distinguished career as an academic researcher and teacher. A leading national authority on legal policy toward children, he drafted the American Bar Association’s Standards Related to Child Abuse and Neglect, as well as major federal and state legislation regarding child welfare. Wald served as deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services, and senior adviser to the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
 

John Wallace Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.764.8354

E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...

The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
 

Judith Wallerstein
Director
Center for the Family in Transition

Address:
PO Box 157
Corte Madera, CA 94976

Phone:
415.435.3417

Web:
http://www.divorceinfo.com/judithwallerstein.htm...

Wallerstein has studied the effects of divorce on children and their parents for 30 years. Her books include "What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce" (Hyperion, 2003), with co-author Sandra Blakeslee; and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study" (Hyperion, 2001), with Blakeslee and Julia Lewis.
 

B. Timothy Walsh M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Columbia University

Address:
Physicians & Surgeons
630 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.305.6001

E-mail:
btw1@Columbia.edu

Web:
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.as...

Dr. Walsh served as the president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and on advisory and review committees of the National Institutes of Health and of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the director of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has written numerous books on eating disorders, the most recent being "If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder" (Oxford University Press 2005).
 

John Weisz
Professor, CEO
Judge Baker Children's Center
Harvard University

Address:
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA 02120-3225

Phone:
617.278.4280

E-mail:
info@jbcc.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.jbcc.harvard.edu/research/steps.htm...

Weisz' written work includes books and articles focused primarily on youth problem behavior and disorders, cultural factors in development and dysfunction, and psychotherapy for children and adolescents. He is president and CEO of Judge Baker Children's Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children whose emotional and behavioral problems threaten to limit their potential.
 

Michael Weitzman M.D.
Executive Director
Center for Child Health Research
University of Rochester

Address:
1351 Mount Hope Ave., Suite 130
Rochester, NY 14620

Phone:
585.275.1544

E-mail:
mweitzman@aap.org

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/cchr/...

Dr. Weitzman is an authority on pediatric research and practice. He has been a practitioner, educator and researcher for more than 20 years, having served as Maternal and Child Health Director of the City of Boston and a professor and director of pediatrics at two universities; he has also trained more than three dozen active pediatric researchers. The center was created by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1999 to improve the physical, mental and social health of children by conducting and synthesizing research across academic disciplines and institutions and using the research to inform public policies and improve medical practices.
 

Elaine Wethington
Associate Professor, Human Development and Sociology
Institute for the Social Sciences
Cornell University

Address:
G52 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
607.255.2918

E-mail:
ew20@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cf...

Wethington, co-director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging, is a medical sociologist, specializing in the sociology of mental health and illness. Her research interests are in the areas of stress and the protective mechanisms of social support. Three current interests frame her work: 1) longitudinal studies of the impacts of life events, chronic difficulties, and their accumulation on changes in mental and physical health: 2) adaptation to work and family demands during midlife; 3) social isolation, social integration and health among older people.
 

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Co-Director
National Marriage Project

Address:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
25 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone:
732.445.7922

E-mail:
marriage@rci.rutgers.edu

Web:
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/codirectors.html...

Dafoe Whitehead speaks and writes about family and child wellbeing, particularly related to marriage, divorce, teen pregnancy and sex education. Her books include "The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and seeks to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.
 

Rebecca Wind
Senior Communications Associate
Alan Guttmacher Institute

Address:
120 Wall St.
New York, NY 10005

Phone:
212.248.1111, ext. 2203

E-mail:
rwind@guttmacher.org

Web:
http://www.agi-usa.org/...

James Youniss Ph.D.
Wylma R. and James R. Curtin Professor of Psychology
Catholic University of America
Life Cycle Institute

Address:
Washington, DC 20064

Phone:
202.329.5999

E-mail:
youniss@cua.edu

Web:
http://lifecycle.cua.edu/faculty/youniss.cfm...

James Youniss, Ph.D., is the Wylma R. and James R. Curtin Professor of Psychology at The Catholic University of America. He studied the social and moral development of children and youth for over four decades. For the past 12 years, he has focused on civic and political awakening in youth, especially as it is stimulated by community service done in the context of clear value traditions. He is the author and editor of several books including “Parents and Peers in Social Development” (University of Chicago Press, 1980); “Adolescent Relations with Mothers, Fathers, and Friends” (University of Chicago Press, 1985); “Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth” (University of Chicago Press, 1997); “Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives” (Cambridge, 1999); and “Catholic Schools at the Crossroads” (Teachers College Press, 2000).
 

Nicholas Zill
Director
Child & Family Study Area
Westat, Inc.

Address:
1650 Research Blvd., Room TA-2126
Rockville, MD 20850

Phone:
301.294.4448

E-mail:
ZILLN1@WESTAT.COM

Web:
http://www.westat.com/...

Zill, a psychologist, has written on changing family behavior in the U.S. and its effects on children. He is currently heading a five-year effort to develop program performance measures for the national Head Start program, and is a senior advisor for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which Westat is conducting for the U.S. Department of Education. Westat is a research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.
 

Julie Magno Zito Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Address:
Lombard Building Room 252
Baltimore, MD

Phone:
410.706.0524

E-mail:
jzito@rx.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/apps/specializat...

Zito is the lead author of several published studies on the use of psychotropic drugs on children. In a 2003 report, she and colleagues reported that the number of children receiving psychotropic drug treatment had tripled from 1987 to 1996, to 6 percent of U.S. children. In a 2000 report, they estimated that 150,000 preschoolers (10 percent of them 2-year-olds) were on psychotropic drugs in 1995, up from 100,000 in 1991. She has also looked at the use of such drugs in child welfare systems and Medicaid.
 

 

 

 

Parry Aftab
Executive Director
WiredSafety

Address:
1 Bridge St., Suite 56
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533

E-mail:
askparry@wiredsafety.org

Web:
http://www.wiredsafety.org...

WiredSafety is an online safety and help group headed by Aftab, a security, privacy and cyberspace lawyer, as well as an author and child advocate. WiredSafety focuses on providing assistance and support to law enforcement, training law enforcement and regulatory agencies, creating awareness and cybercrime prevention programs. Its patrol groups are made up entirely of volunteers.
 

Bill Albert
Deputy Director
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Address:
1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.478.8510

E-mail:
balbert@teenpregnancy.org

Web:
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/press/...

The campaign’s goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 2006 and 2015. From the campaign's 2007 report: -Teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have declined by about one-third since the early 1990's. -Even so, three in ten girls in the United States get pregnant by age 20. -Teens say parents most influence their decisions about sex. -The U.S. leads the fully industrialized world in teen pregnancy and birth rates by a wide margin. -Between 1995 and 2010, the number of girls aged 15-19 is projected to increase by 2.2 million. -About two-thirds of sexually active teens wish they had waited longer to lose their virginity.
 

Jeanne Allen
President and Founder
Center for Education Reform (CER)

Address:
1001 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 204
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.822.9000

E-mail:
cer@edreform.com

Web:
http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=secti...

CER creates opportunities for and challenges obstacles to better education for America's communities. CER seeks to combine education policy with grassroots advocacy to work within the nation's communities to foster positive and bold education reforms. CER advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, such as strong charter school laws, school choice programs for children most in need, common sense teacher initiatives, and proven instructional programs.
 

MaryLee Allen
director
Child Welfare & Mental Health
Children's Defense Fund

Address:
25 E St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.628.8787

E-mail:
mallen@childrensdefense.org

Web:
http://www.childrensdefense.org...

The division is responsible for CDF's programmatic and policy work on behalf of children most vulnerable to being left behind. Nationally, the division plays a leadership role in expanding supports for families to enable them to better nurture and protect their children, preventing family crises from intensifying, and promoting permanent families when crises occur.
 

Jacqueline Ancess
Associate Director
Columbia University
The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching

Address:
Teachers College
411 Main Hall, TC Box 110
New York, NY 10027

Phone:
212.678.3432

E-mail:
ja127@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.tc.edu/ncrest/home.htm...

NCREST supports school restructuring efforts by documenting successful initiatives, teacher learning, assessment, the documentation of successful school reform efforts in elementary and secondary schools, educational technology in schools, and the development of local, state, and national policies based on practice. NCREST is involved in a variety of projects including Professional Development Schools, teacher learning, assessment, the documentation of successful school reform efforts in elementary and secondary schools, educational technology in schools, and the development of local, state, and national policies based on practice.
 

Patricia Arthur
Senior Attorney
Juvenile Justice
National Center for Youth Law

Address:
405 14th St., 15th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone:
510.835.8098

E-mail:
parthur@youthlaw.org

Web:
http://www.youthlaw.org/about_ncyl/staff/attorneys...

Arthur specializes in juvenile justice and complex litigation. She is co-founder and founding president of TeamChild, a Seattle-based, statewide advocacy organization that helps youth in trouble by addressing their basic health, housing and education needs. She has been lead counsel in many class-action lawsuits involving the rights of incarcerated youth and youth at risk of institutionalization.
 

Ann Avery
Director
Northwest Michigan Health Services

Address:
10767 Traverse Hwy., Suite B
Traverse City, MI 49684

Phone:
231.947.0351

E-mail:
aavery@nmhsi.org

Since 1968, Northwest Michigan Health Services, Inc. (NMHS) has been responsible for providing primary health care services to migratory farmworkers and their families in eight counties in Northwest Lower Michigan. Among the services offered are diagnosis and treatment by physicians, referrals, emergency medical care, follow-up, outreach, transportation, pharmaceutical services, dental care, and health education. Services are offered at three sites, and each site maintains evening hours, employs bilingual personnel, and establishes linkages with other service agencies in its area.
 

Claire Barnett
Executive Director
Healthy Schools Network, Inc.

Address:
773 Madison Ave.
Albany, NY 12208

Phone:
518.462.0632

E-mail:
healthyschools@aol.com

Web:
http://www.healthyschools.org/...

The network is a national organization that focuses on children's environmental health. It is dedicated to assuring that every child and school employee has an environmentally safe, healthy school.
 

Carl Bell M.D.
President and CEO
Community Mental Health Council

Address:
8704 South Constance Ave.
Chicago, IL 60617

Phone:
773.908.0076

E-mail:
carlcbell@pol.net

Web:
http://www.thecouncil-online.org/Carl_C_Bell.htm...

Bell, M.D., is president and CEO of the Community Mental Health Council Inc. and is a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He co-directs UIC’s Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center and is the principal investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health grant to reduce the risk of HIV infection among youths in a South African township. During his 35-year career, Bell has written and spoken extensively about violence-related traumatic stress, black-on-black crime, and violence prevention. He is the author of “The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness” (Third World Press, 2004) and roughly 400 articles on related issues. He has been an expert guest on national programs such as “The Today Show,” “Nightline,” “CBS Sunday Morning” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” A former director of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, Bell was given the American Psychiatric Association’s presidential award for his efforts to reduce violence. In 2004, he received the American Psychiatric Foundation’s first minority service award. He graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago and earned a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago, working with children, adolescents and adults.
 

Peter L. Benson
President
Search Institute

Address:
The Banks Building
615 First Ave. NE Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Phone:
612.376.8956

E-mail:
si@search-institute.org

Web:
http://www.search-institute.org...

The institute works to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. Its staff conducts research and evaluation, develops publications and practical tools and provides training and technical assistance. It developed a framework of developmental assets that identifies 40 critical factors for young people’s growth and development.
 

Deb Bialescki Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation
American Camp Association

Address:
5000 State Road 67 North
Martinsville, IN 46151-7902

Phone:
765.342.8456

E-mail:
dbialescki@ACAcamps.org

Web:
www.ACAcamps.org...

The ACA accredits more 2,400 camps collaborates with other youth-serving organizations and associations. ACA-accredited camps meet strict standards for health, safety, and program quality. Bialeschki develops surveys, trains people to utilize research results and plans and conducts studies that provide practical insights for camps and for the broader field of youth development.
 

Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.

Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Native American Programs
Indian Country Child Trauma Center

Phone:
405.271.8858

E-mail:
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.icctc.org/...

The center develops trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children and their families.
 

Helen Blank
Director of Leadership and Public Policy
National Women's Law Center

Address:
11 Dupont Circle, N.W., # 800
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.588.5180

E-mail:
hblank@nwlc.org

Web:
http://nwlc.org/index.cfm...

The National Women's Law Center works on getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families. The center's focus is on education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families.
 

David Bloomfield
Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Policy
Brooklyn College
Educational Leadership Program

Address:
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Phone:
718.951.5608

E-mail:
davidb@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Web:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/schooled/bloomfi...

Bloomfield specializes in education law, school district management and technology, school reform, and legislative matters. He is the author of ground-breaking charter school, parent rights, and school governance legislation.
 

Craig Bowman
Executive Director
National Youth Advocacy Coalition

Address:
1638 R Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.319.7596

E-mail:
craig@nyacyouth.org

Web:
http://www.nyacyouth.org/...

The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is the only national organization focused solely on improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth through advocacy, education, and information.
 

Brett Brown Ph.D.
Director of Social Indicators Research
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.362.5580, ext. 6052

E-mail:
bbrown@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...

Brown manages numerous projects related to the development and use of social indicators of child and family well-being at the international, national and state levels. Other areas of research interest include single-father families and the determinants of successful transitions from youth to adulthood.
 

Sarah Brown
Campaign Director
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Address:
1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.478.8510 (press)

E-mail:
ssbrown@teenpregnancy.org

Web:
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/...

The campaign’s goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 1996 and 2005. It works to develop grassroots activism at the state and local level and, through contacts with the entertainment media and the press, to influence the culture in which teens live.
 

Jane Rinzler Buckingham
President
Youth Intelligence

Address:
9 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011

Phone:
212.982.5428

E-mail:
info@youthintelligence.com

Web:
http://www.youthintelligence.com/...

Youth Intelligence is a research and trend analysis service for the youth market. It works with clients on projects such as marketing, brand positioning and new product development.
 

Charlene Burgeson
Executive Director
National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)

Address:
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191

Phone:
703.476.3410

E-mail:
cburgeson@aahperd.org

Web:
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template...

Charlene R. Burgeson is executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), a nonprofit membership organization of over 18,000 professionals in physical activity and fitness. NASPE is dedicated to strengthening basic knowledge about sport and physical education among professionals and the general public and putting that knowledge into action in U.S. schools and communities. From 1997-2003, Burgeson worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta as a health scientist in the Division of Adolescent and School Health and a public health advisor in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. In 2000 she co-authored a report from the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education to the President of the United States titled “Promoting Better Health for Young People through Physical Activity and Sport.” She was also the lead author for the physical education chapter of the 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Survey published by CDC. In 2001, Burgeson was honored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance with the Mabel Lee Award for achieving national recognition as a professional leader before reaching age 36. A former elementary physical education teacher in the Fairfax County, Va., public schools, she also coached local youth sports. Burgeson received her master’s degree in physical education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
 

Eliza Byard Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Director
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.727.0135

E-mail:
ebyard@glsen.org

Web:
http://www.glsen.org...

GLSEN is a national education organization dedicated to ending bias and harassment directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in K-12 schools. GLSEN publishes an annual report: the National School Climate Survey, the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's schools.
 

Geoffrey Canada
President & CEO
Harlem Children's Zone

Address:
1916 Park Ave., Suite 212
New York, NY 10037

Phone:
212.234.6200

E-mail:
info@hcz.org

Web:
http://www.hcz.org/...

Canada is an advocate for and expert on issues concerning violence, children and community redevelopment. His initiatives include the Beacon School, which provides support 12 hours a day, 365 days a year to children and families in Central Harlem; and the Harlem Children's Zone Project, which works with all of the children and families in a 23-block area in Central Harlem. Previously he was director of the Robert White School, a private day school for troubled inner-city youth in Boston. He has a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
 

David Carrier
Outreach Director
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6138

E-mail:
dcarrier@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan research center studies children at every stage of development. It is a key source of information on a wide range of topics, including early childhood development, foster care and adoption, education, teen sex and pregnancy, and marriage and family. The Child Trends DataBank is a one-stop source for the latest national trends and research on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. Its recent reports include “Child Care Use by Low-Income Families: Variations Across States.” The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization provides research guidance to improve policies, programs and practices affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood and youth development; child welfare; education; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (e.g., by race/ethnicity, family income, immigrant status). Its online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 indicators of well-being.
 

Madeline Carter
Project Director
Center for Sex Offender Management

Address:
c/o Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone:
301.589.9383

E-mail:
cartermm@cepp.com

Web:
http://www.csom.org/...

Center for Sex Offender Management's (CSOM) goal is to enhance public safety by preventing further victimization through improving the management of adult and juvenile sex offenders who are in the community. CSOM is sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with the National Institute of Corrections, State Justice Institute, and the American Probation and Parole Association. CSOM is administered through a cooperative agreement between OJP and the Center for Effective Public Policy.
 

Heather Corinna
Founder and Editor

Address:
Seattle, WA

Corinna is an activist, writer, artist, educator, online publisher. Since 1997, she has focused on providing women and young adults with online information about sexuality. She is the author of S.E.X.(Marlowe & Company/DaCapo, 2007). To contact Corinna: http://www.scarleteen.com/contact
 

Kathy Cowan
Director of Marketing and Communications
National Association of School Psychologists

Address:
4340 East West Highway, Suite 402
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone:
301.657.0270, ext. 226

E-mail:
kcowan@naspweb.org

Web:
http://www.nasponline.org/index2.html...

The National Association of School Psychologists represents and supports school psychology to enhance the mental health and educational competence of all children.
 

Jennifer Dalven
Deputy director
Reproductive Freedom Project
ACLU

Address:
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004

E-mail:
media@aclu.org

Web:
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/Reproductiv...

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Reproductive Freedom Project includes information on sex education and teen sexuality. Reporters can find local affiliates at http://www.aclu.org/Affiliates/.
 

Joseph DiNorcia
President and CEO
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)

Address:
130 W. 42nd St., Suite 350
New York, NY 10036

Phone:
212.819.9770

Web:
http://www.siecus.org...

SIECUS develops, collects and disseminates information on sexuality issues, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates for the rights of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
 

Eden Fisher Durbin
Director
Public Policy
YMCA of the USA

Address:
1701 K St., N.W., Suite 903
Washington, DC 20006

Phone:
202.835.9043

E-mail:
eden.durbin@ymca.net

Web:
http://www.ymca.net...

Durbin is director of the public policy department of the YMCA of the USA. The department educates elected officials, the administration and key policy-makers on the five national YMCA advocacy issues: child care; youth service; youth health and fitness; substance abuse and juvenile justice; crime and gangs. The public policy department also consults with YMCAs and YMCA state alliances on state and local advocacy issues and tax issues. Durbin has worked in Washington as a child and family advocate for nearly 12 years. Prior to working with the YMCA of the USA, Durbin worked with the Child Welfare League of America. Durbin received her bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and her master’s in public administration/public policy from George Washington University.
 

Kevin Dwyer
Principal Research Scientist
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
National Association of School Psychologists

Address:
4340 East West Highway
#402
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone:
301.229.8251

E-mail:
kdwyer@naspweb.org

Web:
http://www.air.org/cecp/school_violence.htm...

Dwyer is a leading national expert on children’s mental health. Dwyer was President of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), a professional organization representing more than 21,000 school psychologists. Dwyer acted as principal investigator for the federally funded school violence prevention project, which distributed in September 1998 Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools to the nation’s 115,000 schools." "Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide" is a follow-up document he co-authored last year with David Osher of AIR for the U. S. Departments of Education and Justice.
 

Martin R. Eichelberger M.D.
CEO and President
National Safe Kids Campaign

Address:
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004

Phone:
202.662.0600

Web:
http://www.safekids.org...

The campaign is dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury, the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
 

Carol Emig
President
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6003

E-mail:
cemig@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...

Emig has run Child Trends since late 2006. The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization provides guidance to improve policies, programs and decisions affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood development; child welfare; education; youth development and the transition to adulthood; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (by race/ethnicity, family income, parents’ marital status, immigrant status, etc.). Child Trends’ online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
 

Margorie Engel Ph.D.
President
Stepfamily Association of America

Address:
25 Walnut St.
Boston, MA 02108

Phone:
800.735.0329

E-mail:
engel@neu.edu

Web:
http://www.saafamilies.org/aboutsaa/board_bios.htm...

Marjorie Engle is an author, speaker and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Her credentials include a 38-year business career, MA in Education Program Development, MBA in Management, and PhD in Law, Policy and Society. Her stepfamily life began with husband Stephen Boyle and five teenage daughters (she's mother to two and stepmother to three). This grandmother of eight is President and CEO of the Stepfamily Association of America - the only national non-profit membership organization providing information, education, support, and advocacy for stepfamilies and those who work with them. Author of The Divorce Decisions Workbook, The Canadian Divorce Decisions Workbook, Divorce Help Sourcebook, and Weddings A Family Affair: The New Etiquette for Second Marriages and Couples With Divorced Parents, Margorie has also written numerous stepfamily financial management booklets, law journal articles, and chapters in family law and pediatric books in the U.S. and overseas.
 

Janette Fennell
President
Kids and Cars

Address:
2913 West 113th Street
Leawood, KS 66211

Phone:
913.327.0013

E-mail:
email@kidsandcars.org

Kids and Cars' mission is to assure no child dies or is injured in a non-traffic, non-crash motor vehicle related event. It maintains a national database tracking deaths and injuries to children left unattended in or around motor vehicles. The organization says that no federal or state agency is collecting information related to deaths and injuries that occur as non-traffic incidents on private property.
 

Sue Ferguson Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Address:
1005 N. Glebe Road, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22201

Phone:
703.247.1580

E-mail:
sferguson@iihs.org

Web:
http://www.highwaysafety.com...

Susan A. Ferguson, Ph.D., is senior vice president of research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety where she has worked since 1991. The Institute is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization that focuses on reducing losses — deaths, injuries and property damage — from highway crashes. She has done research in various highway safety areas with emphasis on vehicle safety, young drivers, child occupant protection and alcohol and driving. Ferguson has also published over 70 scientific papers. She chairs the Blue Ribbon Panel on Advanced Airbags and serves on various committees and advisory boards including Partners for Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Advisory Board. Ferguson obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1980 and a doctorate in experimental psychology from the George Washington University in 1991.
 

Michael Fix
Vice President and Director of Studies
Migration Policy Institute

Address:
1400 16th St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.266.1924

E-mail:
mfix@migrationpolicy.org

Web:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/...

Fix's work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants and the impact of immigrants on the U.S. labor force. Fix served as a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program from 1998 through 2004. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ panel on the redesign of the U.S. citizenship test.
 

Alex Formuzis
Director of Communications
Environmental Working Group

Address:
1718 Connecticut Ave NW # 600
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.667.6982 main

Web:
http://www.ewg.org/...

The Environmental Working Group works to protect public health and the environment through its own research on public health threats and by disseminating information. It has a number of resources for journalists, and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, Calif.
 

Beth Fredrick
Senior Vice President, Director of Communications and Dev
Alan Guttmacher Institute

Address:
1301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.296.4012

E-mail:
bfredrick@guttmacher.org

Web:
http://www.agi-usa.org/...

The institute conducts research and gathers, analyzes and reports data related to sexual activity, contraception, abortion and childbearing. Its state-level report on "Parental Involvement in Minors' Abortions" is at http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_P
IMA.pdf.
 

Ellen Galinsky
President
Families & Work Institute

Address:
330 Seventh Ave. 14th Fl
New York, NY 10001

Phone:
212.465.2044

E-mail:
emgalinsky@aol.com

Web:
http://www.familiesandwork.org/...

Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, it offers comprehensive research on the U.S. workforce, including "The National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW )." Other recent research includes "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" and Generation & Gender in the Workplace."
 

Amy Garcia
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses

Address:
8484 Georgia Avenue
Suite 420
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone:
240.821.1130

E-mail:
nasn@nasn.org

Web:
http://www.nasn.org...

The association works to improve the health and educational success of children by advocating for school health services by professional registered school nurses. Garcia can speak to school nurse shortages and other topics.
 

Robert Gebbia
Executive Director
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Address:
120 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10005

Phone:
212.363.3500

E-mail:
inquiry@afsp.org

Web:
http://www.afsp.org/index-1.htm...

The foundation is exclusively dedicated to funding research, developing prevention initiatives and offering educational programs and conferences for survivors, mental health professionals, physicians and the public. The "Facts" section of the Web site has information and statistics on child and adolescent suicide.
 

Dee Dee Gordon
Founding Partner
Look-Look

Address:
6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Phone:
323.856.5555

E-mail:
brandy@look-look.com

Web:
http://www.look-look.com/dynamic/looklook/html/ind...

Look-Look is a research company that specializes in youth culture. Gordon has done interviews on the subject of marketing to teens, and the best way to gauge teens' preferences.
 

Libby Gray
Director
Project Reality

Address:
1701 E. Lake Avenue
Suite# 371
Glenview, IL 60025

Phone:
847.729.3298

Web:
www.projectreality.org...

Project Reality specializes in the development, teaching and evaluation of abstinence programs. Gray is regularly involved in media communications on the subject of abstinence.
 

Selena Guber
President
Children's Market Research, Inc.

Address:
1385 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Phone:
212.794.0983

E-mail:
TRENDS2000@AOL.COM

Web:
http://www.kidtrends.com/about.html...

The company provides qualitative and quantitative research, trend analysis and strategic insights into the youth market. Clients include advertising agencies, the media, toy marketers, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. Guber is currently the chairperson of the American Marketing Association/N.Y, Children's Marketing Leadership Council. Guber also is the executive editor of KIDTRENDS & TARGETING TEENS, two monthly newsletters about the youth market.
 

James Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies
Cato Institute

Address:
1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.789.5200

Web:
http://www.cato.org/people/harper.html...

Harper focuses on issues at the intersection of business, technology and public policy. His work focuses on the problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. He is editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think-tank devoted exclusively to privacy. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
 

Roderick Harrison Ph.D.
Director
DataBank
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Address:
1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.789.6374

E-mail:
rharrison@jointcenter.org

Web:
http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/index.htm...

Harrison's expertise is demographic trends among African Americans. He is the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations. In 1998, the American Statistical Society awarded him the Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for his work in revising the racial and ethnic classifications used by all federal agencies and efforts in developing new classifications on race and ethnicity for the 2000 Census.
 

Peter Hodges
Marketing Manager
Search Institute

Address:
615 First Avenue NE, Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Phone:
612.692.5525

E-mail:
peterh@search-institute.org

Web:
www.search-institute.org...

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization researches child and adolescent development and studies how communities attend to young people’s needs. Its Developmental Assets framework identifies 40 critical factors for young people’s growth and development.
 

Kevin Jennings
Executive Director
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.727.0135

E-mail:
kjennings@glsen.org

Web:
http://www.glsen.org...

The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network wants to assure that everyone in the school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
 

Peter S. Jensen M.D.
Director
The REACH Institute

Address:
71 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10010

Phone:
212.845.4486

E-mail:
peter.jensen@reachinstitute.net

Web:
www.reachinstitute.net...

The REACH Institute aims to accelerate the acceptance and use of proven interventions that foster children's emotional and behavioral health. The institute, established in 2007, provides training and outreach to health care practitioners, parents, schools and community organizations. It focuses on the latest evidence-based interventions for identifying, diagnosing, treating and managing child and adolescent emotional and behavioral disorders. Jensen, a psychiatrist, helped launch REACH after directing Columbia University's Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health. Jensen has also served as associate director of child and adolescent research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has edited two books and written more than 100 scientific articles and chapters on children's mental health research. Jensen has received many national honors, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Norbert Rieger Award.
 

Dixie Jordan
Director
Families and Advocates Partnership for Education
PACER Center

Address:
210 E. Madison
Riverton, WY 82501

Phone:
307.851.5097

E-mail:
djordan@pacer.org

Web:
http://www.fape.org/...

PACER provides information and training to support the education of children with disabilities and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education. Jordan is the parent of a son with mental health concerns and has worked for nearly 20 years to reform children's mental health systems. Jordan is the parent of a son with mental health concerns, and director of the national Families and Advocates Partnership for Education at the PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) Center. Based in Minneapolis, PACER provides information and training to support the education of children with disabilities, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education. Jordan, who is based in Wyoming, has worked for nearly 20 years to reform children’s mental health systems, and is an advocate for making families’ knowledge and strengths the foundation for effective mental health services for children.
 

Martha Kempner
Director of Public Information
SIECUS/Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.

Address:
130 W. 42nd St, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036

Phone:
212.819.9770, ext 324

E-mail:
mkempner@siecus.org

Web:
http://www.siecus.org/...

Each year, SIECUS distributes hundreds of thousands of print and electronic resources to educators, advocates, parents, researchers, physicians and others working to expand sexual health programs, policies and understanding. SIECUS also helps individuals locate research, write accurate news articles, create sexual health curriculum and build support for high quality programs in their community.
 

John Kulig M.D.
President
Society for Adolescent Medicine

Address:
1916 Copper Oaks Circle
Blue Springs, MO 64015

Phone:
617.636.4779

E-mail:
jkulig@tufts-nemc.org

Web:
http://www.adolescenthealth.org/...

Founded in 1968, the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well-being of all adolescents. Kulig is president for 2005-2006.
 

William Lassiter
Manager
Center for the Prevention of School Violence

Address:
1801 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1801

Phone:
919.733.3388 Ext. 332

E-mail:
william.lassiter@ncmail.net

Web:
http://www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv/...

The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and think tank for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development. The Center's efforts in support of safer schools are directed at understanding the problems of school violence and developing solutions to them.
 

Debbie Linchesky
Media Relations Manager
Public Affairs
American Academy of Pediatrics

Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Phone:
847.434.4000

E-mail:
dlinchesky@aap.org

Web:
http://www.aap.org/...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Along with its monthly scientific and continuing education journals, Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org) and Pediatrics in Review, the academy publishes patient education guides. Its Web site provides topical information on childhood health, on issues ranging from breast feeding to autism to obesity to disaster preparedness. It also posts policy statements, practice guidelines and other child health resources.
 

Mike Livingston
Media Assistant
National Safe Kids Campaign

Address:
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004

Phone:
202.662.0600

E-mail:
mlivingston@safekids.org

Web:
http://www.safekids.org...

The campaign is dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury, the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
 

Daniel Macallair
Executive Director
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

Address:
54 Dore St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

Phone:
415.621.5661, ext. 310

E-mail:
dmacallair@cjcj.org

Web:
http://www.cjcj.org/index.php...

Macallair is the co-founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. His expertise is in the development and analysis of correctional policy for youth and adult offenders. He has implemented model programs throughout the country. His programs have received national recognition and were cited as exemplary models by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University's Innovations in American Government program. He authored a 1999 study on youth curfew.
 

Joe S. McIlhaney Jr. M.D.
Founder, Chairman
The Medical Institute

Address:
1101 S. Capital of TX Highway
Building B, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746

Phone:
512.328.6268

E-mail:
dcampos-nemoto@medinstitute.org

Web:
http://www.medinstitute.org/...

The Medical Institute is designed to confront the world epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data. Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
 

Wanda Miller
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses/Eastern Office

Address:
Box 1300
Scarborough, ME 04070

Phone:
207.883.2117

E-mail:
wmiller@nasn.org

Web:
http://www.nasn.org...

The association works to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students.
 

Alicia Moag-Stahlberg M.S.
Executive Director
Action for Healthy Kids

Address:
4711 Golf Road, Suite 806
Skokie, IL 60076

Phone:
847.329.1803

E-mail:
alicia@actionforhealthykids.org

Web:
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org...

Moag-Stahlberg is a registered dietician and an adjunct clinical instructor at Northwestern University Medical School’s Department of Preventive Medicine. She also served as director for the U.S. National Dietary Data Center/U.S. Country Nutritionist for INTERMAP, a study on diet, nutrition and blood pressure.
 

William O'Hare Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
KIDS COUNT
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Address:
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202

Phone:
410.547.6600, Ext. 2049

E-mail:
WOhare@aecf.org
Web:
http://www.kidscount.org...

O’Hare is a senior fellow at Casey and a visiting senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute. At Casey, he has worked on Kids Count, a national and state-by-state effort that tracks the status and well-being of U.S. children, since 1990. He directed the project from 1993 to 2006. At Carsey, he joins in policy research on youth and working families in small cities and rural communities. Earlier, the social demographer directed policy studies at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., and population and policy research at the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute. O’Hare has testified before Congress on issues related to measurements of poverty and race. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Census Bureau and as president of the Southern Demographic Association.
 

David Osher
Managing Research Scientist and Director
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
American Institutes for Research, Pelavin Research Center

Address:
1000 Thomas Jefferson St. N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20007

Phone:
202.944.5373

E-mail:
dosher@air.org

Web:
http://cecp.air.org/ or http://cecp.air.org/vc/top...

Osher focuses his work on knowledge use, violence prevention, schoolwide and community-wide interventions for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, and building meaningful collaborations at federal, state, and local levels. Osher is Principal Investigator of The Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice; The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health; The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention; The National Coordinator Training and Technical Assistance Center for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program; The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk; and of research that focuses on the impact of specific types on prevention and treatment interventions. Osher has authored, co-authored, or edited over 150 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports. He helped the U. S. Department of Education develop The National Agenda for Improving Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and is an expert on making collaboration work.
 

Craig Palosky
Communications Officer
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Address:
1300 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.347.5270

E-mail:
cpalosky@kff.org

Web:
www.kff.org...

An independent philanthropy focused on major health care issues, the foundation runs research and communications programs. Its work includes health policy; media and public health, and health insurance. For its resources on child and family health coverage, including a link to state-by-state coverage initiatives, see http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu051607pkg.cfm Fo
r state-level data, see www.statehealthfacts.org
 

 

David Partenheimer

Office of Public Affairs
American Psychological Association (APA)

Address:
750 First St. N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

Phone:
202.336.5700

E-mail:
dpartenheimer@apa.org

Web:
http://www.apa.org...

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's media referral service will connect reporters to adolescent mental health experts throughout the country. It also created a brochure to alert young people to the "Warning Signs of Youth Violence."
 

Eboo Patel Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core

Address:
1111 N. Wells, Ste. 501
Chicago, IL 60610

Phone:
312.573.8941

E-mail:
eboo@ifyc.org

Web:
http://www.ifyc.org...

A religious scholar and interfaith leader, Patel established the Chicago Interfaith Youth Core to encourage young people to strengthen their religious identities. He is the co-editor of "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) and is currently writing a book on the role of religious youth in the 21st Century with Beacon Press.
 

Terry Portis
Executive Director
SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People)

E-mail:
tportis@hearingloss.org

SHHH is the nation’s largest organization for people with hearing loss. According to 2003 CDC data, every day in the U.S., approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns (or 33 babies every day) is born profoundly deaf with another 2-3 out of 1,000 babies born with partial hearing loss.
 

Vaughn I. Rickert
President
The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM)

Address:
1916 Copper Oaks Circle
Blue Springs, MO 64015

Phone:
212.304.5766

E-mail:
vir2002@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.adolescenthealth.org/...

SAM is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed to improving adolescents’ physical and psychosocial health and well-being. It promotes the development, synthesis and dissemination of scientific and scholarly knowledge about adolescents’ unique health needs.
 

Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Senior Research Associate
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

Address:
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936

Phone:
415.476.3375

E-mail:
hector.sanchez@ucsf.edu

Web:
www.dhs.ca.gov/pcfh/ofp/Programs/MIP...

Héctor Sánchez-Flores is a senior research associate and member of the statewide evaluation team for the Male Involvement Program. He also serves as the liaison to the California Department of Health Services, Office of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health – Office of Family Planning. Sánchez-Flores works closely with over 20 local projects in California that develop teen pregnancy prevention services specifically for young and teen males. He serves on national boards and advisory committees that address teen pregnancy prevention and male involvement, and he advises policy analysts and legislative leaders on community-based solutions to teen pregnancy and the inclusion of males in prevention efforts and reproductive health education.
 

Allison Seale
Communications Manager
Hamilton Fish Institute

Address:
12031 Hoffman Street N3
Studio City, CA 91604

Phone:
818.505.1942

E-mail:
aliseal@aol.com

Web:
http://www.hamfish.org/...

The Institute is a national resource to test the effectiveness of school violence prevention methods and to develop more effective strategies. The institute can connect reporters with multidisciplinary researchers across the country who test violence prevention programs in urban, rural and suburban schools.
 

Annetta Seecharran
Executive Director
South Asian Youth Action

Address:
54-05 Seabury St.
Elmhurst, NY 11373

Phone:
718.651.3484

E-mail:
annetta@saya.org

Web:
http://www.saya.org...

Annetta Seecharran is the executive director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), a community-based organization dedicated to creating social change and opportunities to help South Asian youth realize their fullest potential. Prior to joining SAYA! she spent five years at the International Youth Foundation, serving as program manager for YouthNet International, a network of youth development organizations in over 30 countries. Seecharran also founded YouthActionNet, a global initiative promoting youth social entrepreneurship. In addition to her extensive work with youth in New York City’s African American and Latino communities, she has worked with abandoned and disabled children in India and coordinated after-school programs in Poland. She serves on the boards of directors of the New York Immigration Coalition, Peoples Production House, and The Rajkumari Center for Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture. Seecharran also advises numerous initiatives serving immigrants. She earned a master’s degree in international political economy and development at Fordham University, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manhattanville College, and executive management certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School.
 

Eric Sigmon
Immigration Program Assistant
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children

Address:
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.347.3507

E-mail:
NationalCenter@uscridc.org

Web:
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1260&subm=...

The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children provides pro bono legal and social services to unaccompanied children released from detention in the United States. Sigmon provides support by reviewing and processing case referrals, matching children with pro bono attorneys, and coordinating the pro bono trainings.
 

Rakesh Singh
Communications Officer
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Address:
1300 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.347.5270

E-mail:
rsingh@kff.org

Web:
http://www.kff.org/...

An independent philanthropy focused on major health care issues, the foundation runs research and communications programs. Its work includes health policy; media and public health, and health insurance. For its resources on child and family health coverage, including a link to state-by-state coverage initiatives, see http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu051607pkg.cfm

For state-level data, see www.statehealthfacts.org
 

Marjorie Speers Ph.D.
Executive Director
Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.

Address:
915 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.783.1112

E-mail:
mspeers@aahrpp.org

Web:
http://www.aahrpp.org/www.aspx...

Dr. Speers served as Acting Executive Director at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she oversaw the development of "Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants." AAHRPP offers accreditation to institutions that conduct or review research with human participants.
 

Peter Sybinsky Ph.D.
CEO
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Address:
1220 19th Street, N.W., Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.775.0436

E-mail:
psybinsky@amchp.org

Web:
http://www.amchp.org/index.htm...

AMCHP represents state public health leaders and others working to improve the health and well-being of women, children, youth and families, including those with special health care needs. Collectively, its members manage public health programs that serve more than 27 million women, children and youth.
 

Lloyd Thacker
Executive Director
The Education Conservancy

Address:
805 SW Broadway, Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97205

Phone:
503.290.0083

E-mail:
lthacker@educationconservancy.org

Web:
http://www.educationconservancy.org...

Thacker is founder of the Education Conservancy, which helps students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions. Its mission is to return control of college admissions to those who are directly involved in education: students, colleges, parents and high schools.
 

Mala Thakur
Executive Director
National Youth Employment Coalition

Address:
1836 Jefferson Pl., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.659.1064

E-mail:
mt@nyec.org

Web:
www.nyec.org...

The nonprofit NYEC, based in Washington, D.C., is a network of more than 230 youth employment/development organizations. It works in four areas: tracking and influencing policy; setting quality standards; supporting professional development; and building organizations’ and programs’ capacity.
 

Gerald Tirozzi
Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

Address:
1904 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191

Phone:
703.860.0200

E-mail:
tirozzig@principals.org

Web:
http://www.principals.org/s_nassp/sec.asp?CID=833&...

Gerald N. Tirozzi has spent over 40 years in the educational field. Other positions he has held include: assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, (under Secretary Richard W. Riley), Connecticut's Commissioner of Education, college president, superintendent, principal, guidance counselor and teacher. Tirozzi holds a doctorate in educational administration from Michigan State University.
 

Stephanie Ventura
Senior Demographer and Chief, Reproductive Statistics Branch
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns. She is an author of the report “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the congressionally mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Adrienne Verrilli
Director of Communications
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)

Address:
130 W. 42nd St., Suite 350
New York, NY 10036

Phone:
212.819.9770, ext. 325

E-mail:
averrilli@siecus.org

Web:
http://www.siecus.org...

SIECUS develops, collects and disseminates information on sexuality issues, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates for the rights of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
 

James Wagoner
President
Advocates for Youth

Address:
2000 M St. NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.419.3420

E-mail:
questions@advocatesforyouth.org

Web:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/...

Advocates for Youth is a national organization that creates programs and supports policies to help young people make safe, responsible decisions about sex.
 

Gail Wasserman M.D.
Director
Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice (CPMHJJ)
Columbia University

Address:
1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 74
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.543.5298

E-mail:
WassermG@childpsych.columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.promotementalhealth.org...

CPMHJJ assists juvenile justice facilities and local communities in establishing and maintaining effective diagnostic procedures for identifying mental health problems among youth in contact with the justice system.
 

Pam Willenz
Manager of Public Affairs
750 First St. N.E.
American Psychological Association (APA)

Address:
750 First St. N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

Phone:
202.336.5707

E-mail:
public.affairs@apa.org

Web:
http://www.apa.org/pi/cyf...

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's media referral service will connect reporters to adolescent mental health experts throughout the country. It also created a brochure to alert young people to the "Warning Signs of Youth Violence."
 

Jim Wood
Director Development and Communications
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

Address:
3615 Wisconsin Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20016

Phone:
202.966.7300, ext. 120

E-mail:
jwood@aacap.org

Web:
http://www.aacap.org/...

AACAP provides timely responses to current events involving or affecting children and adolescents. AACAP also provides updates on Academy activities and reports on the latest research findings in child and adolescent mental illnesses as published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

 

 

 

Paul Abamonte
Director, Health Communications
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Address:
4770 Buford Highway N.E., MS K-60
Atlanta, GA 30341

Phone:
770.488.4277

E-mail:
pabamonte@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc and http://www.safeyouth...

Abamonte directs health communications within the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The division serves as the federal government’s primary health resource in the epidemiology, statistics, prevention and control of violence-related injuries and deaths. Abamonte has extensive professional experience in the design and implementation of public health initiatives. He has been a member of the CDC’s Bio-Terrorism Response Team. Abamonte is a criminologist by training and a behavioral scientist in practice with degrees in political science and criminology.
 

Duane Alexander M.D.
Director
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institutes of Health

Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.5133

E-mail:
da43@nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/events/ncsac...

Dr. Alexander is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most of which relate to his research in developmental disabilities. He was also instrumental in the founding of the journal Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health. It sponsors research on development before and after birth; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.
 

Christine Bachrach Ph.D.
Chief
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Executive Building, Room 8B13E
6100 Executive Blvd., MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
cbachrach@nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/...

The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is within the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Bachrach's areas of research include: Fertility; sexual behavior; adolescent health; marriage, co-habitation, and divorce; adoption; abortion; immigration and migration; population composition and projection; formal demography; family formation and structure; inter-generational demography.
 

S. Kimberly Belshe
Secretary
California Health and Human Services Agency

Address:
1600 Ninth Street, Suite 460
Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone:
916.654.3345

Web:
http://www.chhs.ca.gov/...

Robert Bock
Press Officer
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Bldg 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2425

Phone:
301.496.5133

E-mail:
bockr@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/...

NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health, conducts and supports research on children, adults, families and specific populations. Its research touches all aspects of child health, from reproductive health to growth and development; from preventing and treating birth defects, mental retardation and developmental disabilities to improving health and rehabilitation over a lifetime. It leads the National Children’s Study, which is following 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to examine the interaction of genes and environments.
 

W. Alan Coulter Ph.D.
Project Director
National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring

Phone:
504.556.7559

E-mail:
acoulter@lsuhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringcenter.lsuhsc.edu/aboutus.htm...

NCSEAM), also known as the National Monitoring Center, is federally funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education to assist states, local agencies, and OSEP in the implementation of focused monitoring and evidenced-based decision-making about compliance with federal law so that improved results are achieved for children with disabilities and their families. NCSEAM is housed at the Human Development Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
 

William Dietz Ph.D.
Director, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Address:
4770 Buford Highway N.E., MSK-24
Atlanta, GA 30341

Phone:
770.488.6042

E-mail:
wcd4@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/index.htm...

Dietz specializes in childhood obesity. A nutritionist, he is the author of over 150 publications in the scientific literature, and the editor of three books, including "Policy Tools for the Childhood Obesity Epidemic" (2002) and "The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition," (1998). He is an honorary member of the American Dietetic Association and received the Holroyd-Sherry award for his outstanding contributions to the field of children, adolescents and the media.
 

Gerard Donovan
Sergeant
Family Services Unit
New Castle County Police

Address:
87 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720

Phone:
302.395.7760

E-mail:
GDonovan@co.new-castle.de.us

Web:
http://www.nccpd.com...

Donovan is a 12-year veteran of the New Castle County (Del.) Police, and since 1995 has worked in the Domestic Violence Unit, the past two years as its commander. Donovan has conducted training seminars throughout the United States on domestic violence and abuse, and the relationship between domestic violence and other crises; his work on the latter was the model for a statewide program for hostage negotiators in California. Donovan helped produce two videos on domestic abuse, one to enhance public awareness, the other to standardize the way police investigate domestic violence calls. The federally funded videos were distributed throughout the United States and abroad. Donovan is also the commander of the department's Crisis Negotiation Team.
 

Maureen Dunn
Division Director
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)
Division of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20447

Phone:
202.401.5709

E-mail:
MDunn@acf.hhs.gov

Web:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/mission/ducs....

DUCS, in accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, assumes responsibility for care and placement of unaccompanied alien children. It also consults with appropriate child welfare professionals and the Department of Homeland Security. It develops placement policy, decisions and recommendations to ensure that children are receiving appropriate care.
 

Katherin Galatas
Communications Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Address:
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333

Phone:
404.639.3286

E-mail:
katherine.galatas@cdc.hhs.gov

Web:
www.cdc.gov...

The CDC covers the spectrum of child and youth disease prevention and health issues. It provides information on birth defects; vaccination; nutrition, overweight and obesity; reproductive and sexual health; and disease outbreaks or threats. Its Web site offers state fact sheets on healthy youth (see http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/profiles/facts.htm).
 

Kay Garvey
Director, Office of Communications
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Address:
P.O. Box 10809
Rockville, MD 20849

Phone:
301.443.3376

E-mail:
nyvprc@safeyouth.org

Web:
http://www.hrsa.gov...

Established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications research and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens, the center is a partnership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. It collects information on youth violence and risks such as unsafe driving and alcohol use among teens and college students.
 

Blair Gately
Press Officer
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Address:
6001 Executive Blvd
Rockville, MD 20852

Phone:
301.594.6145

E-mail:
bg130m@nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html...

NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.
 

Jay Giedd M.D.
Chief of Brain Imaging
National Institute of Mental Health

Address:
Building 10, Room 4C110
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.435.4517

E-mail:
GieddJ@intra.nimh.nih.gov

Web:
http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/research/pi/pi_gied...

Shara Godiwalla
Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

Phone:
301.458.4256

E-mail:
sgodiwalla@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.childstats.gov/topiccontacts.asp...

A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2007 data, see http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.a
sp For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov
 

Michael Hogan Ph.D.
Director
Ohio Department of Mental Health

Address:
30 East Broad St., Eighth Floor
Columbus, OH 43215

Phone:
614.466.2337

E-mail:
hoganm@mhmail.mh.state.oh.us

Web:
http://www.mh.state.oh.us...

Michael Hogan is director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Since joining the department 13 years ago, he has focused on moving mental health in Ohio from an institutionally oriented system to one focused on locally managed community care. President George W. Bush appointed him to chair the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; the commission concluded its work in July 2003. He is the current president of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Before taking his job in Ohio, Hogan held leadership positions with mental health agencies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In Massachusetts, he helped make the western part of the state one of the only regions in the country where people with mental retardation and mental illness are treated almost entirely in community care instead of state institutions. As commissioner of mental health in Connecticut, Hogan was credited with reducing state hospital use and costs, and expanding and improving community services. Hogan holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from Syracuse University. In 2002, Hogan was recognized with awards from the National Governor’s Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
 

Rosalind B. King Ph.D.
Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
rozking@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/dbs.htm#staff...

King's areas of scientific responsibility include: early child development; socioeconomic contexts of child/adolescent social and physical development; research using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; infertility and fertility; adoption; work, family, and health. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

Kenneth Olden Ph.D.
Director
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Address:
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233

Phone:
919.541.3201

E-mail:
olden@niehs.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/od/...

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D., was named as the third director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the second director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) on June 18, 1991, by Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is the first African-American to become director of one of the 18 institutes of the National Institutes of Health during the history of the agency. Dr. Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training, and has been active in research into the properties of cell surface molecules and their possible roles in cancer for more than two decades. He was director of the Howard University Cancer Center and professor and chairman of the Department of Oncology at Howard University Medical School (1985-1991), Washington, D.C., before coming to NIEHS. He joined Howard in 1979 as Associate Director for Research after a stint at the National Institutes of Health, first as a senior staff fellow, then expert, then research biologist in the Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute. Ken Olden was born in Parrottsville, TN. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Knoxville College, his master's degree at the University of Michigan, and his doctoral degree from Temple University, with research done at the University of Rochester. He held postdoctoral fellowships and then was a Macy Faculty Fellow as an instructor at Harvard Medical School before joining NIH. The NIEHS/NTP director has served on the editorial boards of cancer and cell biology journals, is a member of a number of professional societies, and was named by President Bush to the National Cancer Advisory Board in January 1991. He has participated widely as an invited speaker at scientific symposia and seminars, as a reviewer for programs in his field, and has authored and co-authored more than 130 publications. He published two of the "One Hundred Most Cited" papers in 1978-1979, and one on the subject of cancer cell biology is now deemed a "Citation Classic." One of Dr. Olden's recent research interests, the anti-cancer drug Swainsonine, is proposed as a colony stimulating factor in the treatment of cancer. It was approved June 3, 1991, by the Decision Network of the Treatment Division of the National Cancer Institute for its list of drugs for "high priority development" for possible clinical trials in humans. Dr. Olden's laboratory made several seminal contributions to cell and cancer biology. He was the first to demonstrate that carbohydrate moieties of secretory glycoproteins are not required for their export or secretion. This finding reversed the dogma that had been in existence for more than 15 years. Dr. Olden was the first to demonstrate that the "bulk-flow" or "conveyor-belt" model of intracellular transport or externalization of secretory proteins was incorrect. These studies showed that such proteins are exported at discrete rates, consistent with the existence of specific pathways or mechanisms. Also, Dr. Olden was the first to demonstrate that one could prevent organ specific metastasis of malignant cells by blocking the specific interaction between fibronectin and the integrin receptor. Dr. Olden is considered among the world's leading experts on the structure and function of the extracellular matrix glycoprotein fibronectin. As a result of Dr. Olden's outstanding contributions, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, he won the City of Medicine Award in 1996, and, in 1997, he was presented an inaugural award for public policy leadership in protecting health and the environment by the National Association of Physicians for the Environment. In addition, he was the recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award in 1997 and 1996 respectively. Dr. Olden has also received the NIH Quality of Life Award and the NIH Quality of Work Life Award for outstanding efforts to improve the quality of work life for NIH employees. More recently, he was inducted into the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and was honored at the Jubilation Concert 2000 by the Children's Health Environment Coalition for Leadership Role in Children's Environmental Health Research.
 

Thomas Sweeney
Public Affairs Director
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Indian Health Service

Address:
801 Thompson Ave., Ste. 400
Rockville, MD 20852-1627

Phone:
301.443.3593

E-mail:
thomas.sweeney@ihs.gov

Web:
www.ihs.gov...

HIS’ mission is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives to the highest level. IHS has fact sheets on Indian populations, health disparities, diabetes, collaboration with states, and more.
 

Stephanie J. Ventura Ph.D.
Chief, Reproductive Statistics
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura is a senior demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics and is chief of the Center’s Reproductive Statistics Branch. She has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored many reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns, and developed with colleagues a set of national estimates of pregnancy rates. She is co-author of the report, “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the Congressionally-mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Mark Weber
Director, Office of Communications
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Health and Human Services

Address:
P.O. Box 10809
Rockville, MD 20849

Phone:
301.443.8956

E-mail:
nyvprc@safeyouth.org

Web:
http://www.safeyouth.org ...

Established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications research and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens, the center is a partnership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. It collects information on youth violence and risks such as unsafe driving and alcohol use among teens and college students.
 

Kenneth Wolfe
ACF Acting Deputy Director
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201

Phone:
202.401.9215

E-mail:
kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov

Web:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html...

ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, and fatherhood and marriage.
 

Gardenia Wright
Social Worker
Special Education
Richmond County Board of Education

Address:
3114 Lake Forest Dr., Building 309
Augusta, GA 30909

Phone:
706.731.8787

E-mail:
AlstonAmie@knology.net

Gardenia C. Wright, MSW, is a school social worker in Richmond County, Ga. She works with special needs students, serving as a link between the home, school and community to insure these students receive the maximum services and benefits from their educational experience. Wright received her bachelor's degree in social work from Columbia College in Columbia, S.C., and her master's degree in social work from the University of Georgia. She has been a social worker for 22 years, working in medical, mental health and other community settings. Wright has spoken at numerous conferences on issues related to children and families. She has held several offices in professional social work organizations, and was 2000-2001 president of the School Social Workers Association of Georgia.
 

Leah Young
Director of Media Services
Office of Communications
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Address:
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 8-1035
Rockville, MD 20857

Phone:
240.276.2130

E-mail:
Leah.Young@SAMHSA.HHS.gov

Web:
http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/template.cfm?page=...

SAMHSA's mission is to build resilience and facilitate recovery for people with or at risk for substance abuse and mental illness. The Web site offers stats, trends and data.