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Marc Atkins, PhD

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Brief Biography:
Dr. Marc Atkins is a professor of psychology and psychiatry and director of psychology training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as director of research at the Institute for Juvenile Research, which provides advanced clinical and intervention/prevention training for researchers. He has had a long-standing interest in the development of effective mental health services for children and families living in low-income communities.

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Dan Bauer, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Brief Biography:
Dr. Dan Bauer is an associate professor in the Quantitative Psychology Program of the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the development, evaluation, and application of quantitative methods suited to the study of developmental phenomena, especially social development in the domains of aggression, antisocial behavior, and substance use.

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Karen A. Blase, PhD

SENIOR SCIENTIST, FPG CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

Brief Biography:
Dr. Blase, senior scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been a program developer, researcher, trainer, program evaluator, and published author in the human service field for over 30 years.

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Susanne Denham, PhD

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Brief Biography:
Susanne Denham, PhD, of George Mason University is an applied developmental psychologist with particular expertise in the social and emotional development of children. After graduating summa cum laude from Western Maryland College, Dr. Denham went on to receive her MA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Carol Gray

DIRECTOR OF THE GRAY CENTER FOR SOCIAL LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING

Brief Biography:
Carol Gray is the director of the Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has completed over 22 years of employment with Jenison Public Schools in Jenison, Michigan.

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Frank Gresham, PhD

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Brief Biography:
Dr. Frank Gresham of the University of California, Riverside has expertise in the following areas: school psychology, special education, mental retardation and education, learning disabilities and behavioral disorders, and ADHD. He has earned an MEd in rehabilitation counseling and a PhD in psychology at the University of South Carolina Columbia.

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James Lester, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Brief Biography:
James Lester, PhD, is founder and chief scientist of LiveWire Logic. He is a leading research scientist in artificial intelligence, specializing in the area of computational linguistics and intelligent agents. Dr. Lester holds a BA, MSCS, and PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, where his doctoral research in artificial intelligence focused on computational linguistics.

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Lee M. Marcus, PhD

PROFESSOR AND CLINICAL DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Brief Biography:
Dr. Marcus is clinical director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill TEACCH Center where he oversees diagnostic, treatment, and consultation services for children, adolescents, and adults with autism. He is also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine, where he has served as director of the clinical psychology internship program since 1984.

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Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Brief Biography:
Angela M. Neal-Barnett, PhD, is an associate professor of Psychology at Kent State University in Ohio and an awapd-winning, nationally recognized expert in the area of anxiety disorders amoung African Americans. Dr. Neal-Barnett's work has focused on fears and social anxiety in African American children, as well as panic disorder and worry in African American adults.

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Susan O'Halloran

COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT

Brief Biography:
Susan O'Halloran is a story artist, workshop presenter and keynote speaker whose work explores the complex issues of social justice and valuing differences. Since 1969, Susan O'Halloran has worked in education, teaching preschool through college and adult education.

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Mitchell J. Prinstein, PhD

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Brief Biography:
Mitchell J. Prinstein, PhD, is a Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and the director of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Prinstein's research examines interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health risk behaviors among adolescents, with a specific focus on the unique role of peer relationships in the developmental psychopathology of depression and self-injury.

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Stephen M. Quintana, PhD

PROFESSOR OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

Brief Biography:
Stephen M. Quintana, PhD, earned his doctorate from the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame with a specialization in counseling psychology. Currently, he is a professor, and former departmental chair, in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Wesley K. Thompson, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PSYCHIATRY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Brief Biography:
Wesley K. Thompson, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, has conducted research concerning functional data analysis, dynamic modeling of multivariate longitudinal data, and applications to psychiatric research.

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