Rochelle Caplan, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Education:

• MD, Hadassah Medical School of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• Residency in Psychiatry, Ness Ziona Government Psychiatric Hospital, Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Research Fellowship in Child Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• Visiting Research Fellowship in Child Psychiatry, Child Psychopharmacology Unit, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Caplan has been lecturing for more than 30 years on the topics of childhood psychosis and pediatric epilepsy. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work, including the Distinguished Research Mentor Award of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Distinguished Educator Award at UCLA. She is the chair of the Epilepsy Foundation of America Steering Committee on Mood Disorders in Children with Epilepsy and the NINDS/NIMH Committee on Pediatric Nonepileptic Seizures.

She serves on the editorial board of Epilepsia and Epilepsy and Behavior, and is a reviewer for more than 20 scholarly medical journals. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as Manual for Parents of Children with Epilepsy.

Herbert A. Cruz, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco, Fresno, CA
• Psychiatric Medical Director, WestCare, Fresno, CA
• Head of Service, Kings View Corporation, Telepsychiatry Program, Madera, CA

Education:

• MD, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI
• Residency in General Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, Fresno, CA

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Addiction Psychiatry

Dr. Cruz has extensive experience in community psychiatry, with expertise in cross-cultural psychiatry and telepsychiatry. He has served as the Medical Director for the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, Nueva Esperanza Counseling Center, Our Lady of Lourdes Chemical Dependency Unit, and Kings View Residential Treatment Center. Dr. Cruz has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and regularly lectures on ethnopsychopharmacology and telepsychiatry.

Yifrah Kaminer, MD, MB

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry & Alcohol Research Center, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
• Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Senior Investigator at the Injury Prevention Center of the Connecticut Children Medical Center, Hartford, CT
• Research Scientist, Injury Prevention Center, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT

Education:

• MD, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Residency in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Research Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI
• Visiting Clinical Fellowship, Substance Abuse Treatment Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
• MBA, Barney School of Business and Public Administration-University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Kaminer is an internationally recognized expert in adolescent substance abuse treatment and adolescent high risk behaviors. He has been lecturing for nearly 30 years on the treatment of adolescent substance abuse. He has developed the Teen Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) and the Teen Treatment Services Review (T-TSR) rating scales, as well as several treatment and continued care manuals.

Dr. Kaminer has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is also the author or editor of the books Adolescent substance abuse, psychiatric comorbidity and high-risk behaviors, Brief Telephone Continuing Care Therapy for Adolescents, and Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment published by American Psychiatric Publication, Inc.

Dr. Kaminer is a reviewer for several scholarly journals and is also on the editorial board of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse, and Substance Abuse: Treatment and Research Abuse.

James Lock, MD, PhD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Director of Eating Disorder Program and Clinic, Division of Child Psychiatry and Development, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Education:

• PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• MD, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
• Residency in General Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Brentwood, V.A. Hospitals, UCLA-Affiliated Hospitals, Los Angeles, CA
• Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, U.C. Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Lock is an expert in the field of eating disorders. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally, and has been NIH funded to research in eating disorders continuously since 1997. He recently received The Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorder Association.

Dr. Lock is the author of more than 150 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the co-author of Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach, Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach, Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, and Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach. He is also on the Editorial Boards of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

Richard N. Rosenthal, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
• Director of Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
• Member, Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA NPI, Los Angeles, CA

Education:

• MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Residency in General Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
• Research/Child Psychiatry Fellow, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. McCracken has been the principal investigator of numerous studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Center. His current areas of research include family-genetic studies of childhood disorders and the testing of new pharmacologic treatments for a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders in children, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders.

Dr. McCracken has published more than 200 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles in the area of child psychiatry. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology News, and Molecular Autism. Dr. McCracken also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Tourette Syndrome Association.

David Neubauer, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
• Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Education:

• MD, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
• Residency in Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Sleep Disorders Medicine

Dr. Neubauer, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, is a frequent lecturer, and the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts. He has written chapters on insomnia and sleep disorders in several editions of Conn's Current Therapy, as well as the book Understanding Sleeplessness: Perspectives on Insomnia. Dr. Neubauer also writes a column on sleep-related topics for Primary Psychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals, such as SLEEP and Postgraduate Medicine.

Steven Pliszka, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX
• Chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Education:

• MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
• Residency in General Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
• Residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Pliszka has been lecturing on the psychopharmacology of child and adolescent disorders for more than 15 years. His research has focused on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related disorders and has been involved with clinical trials for most of the medications used to treat ADHD. Since 2008, he has directed Services Uniting Pediatrics and Psychiatry Outreaching to Texas (SUPPORT) a state-funded initiative to integrate mental health services into pediatric primary care.

Dr. Pliszka is the author of Neuroscience for the Mental Health Clinician and Treating ADHD and Comorbid Disorders. He has also been very active in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, authoring the academy’s practice parameters for the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.

Karam Radwan, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Education:

• MD, The University of Damascus, Syria
• Residency in Psychiatry, The University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
• Residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Radwan is an accomplished educator and researcher. He has authored several articles published in JAACAP and been an investigator in several large clinical trials, such as CATIE and CAPTN-SSRI. He was the principal investigator studying the use of omega-3 in the prevention and treatment of mental illness.

Dr. Radwan’s many roles at the University of Chicago include serving as the Director of the Fundamentals of Psychopathology Course, the Mood and Anxiety Specialty Clinic, and the Co-director of the Family Therapy Course and Supervision.

Hans Steiner, MD

Titles/Affiliations/Positions:

• Professor Emeritus (Active), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Human Development, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Education:

• MD, Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria
• Residency in Psychiatry, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
• Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Board Certifications:

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Steiner is an expert in aggression, psychopathologies associated with trauma, and pediatric and psychiatric comorbidity. He is a Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. He is also a Nominator for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Dr. Steiner is an international speaker and writer who has published more than 500 articles, abstracts, reviews, books, and book chapters. He has edited several books including Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach. He is a senior associate editor for Child Psychiatry and Human Development, on the editorial boards of Personality and Mental Health and Journal of School Violence, and is a reviewer for more than 50 scholarly journals.

Dr. Steiner has won numerous national awards for his research, teaching, and mentorship. He has received the Outstanding Mentor Award of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry multiple times.