Dr. Joan L. Luby is a Professor of Psychiatry (Child) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is founding director of the Washington University School of Medicine Early Emotional Development Program (EEDP). The EEDP is a clinical research program that focuses on the study and treatment of affective disorders in preschool age children. Dr. Luby’s research focus is on testing an emotion developmental model of early onset mood disorders. The basis of this empirical model is to enhance early identification and to design early developmental interventions in depression. Dr. Luby’s contributions include the first large scale empirical studies that have established the criteria for identification, validation, and clinical characteristics of depressive syndromes in the preschool age group. Dr. Luby was awarded the Gerald Klearman award for outstanding research from NARSAD in 2004. She currently chairs the AACAP Infant and Preschool Committee.

 

Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D. is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Infant Mental Health and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of California at San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, San Francisco General Hospital. She is president of the board of directors of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and on the board of trustees of the Irving Harris Foundation. She is director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a collaborative of four university-based programs that is a center of the SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Her major interests include infant mental health, disorders of attachment, child-parent interventions with multi-problem families, the effects of trauma in the first years of life, and treatment outcome research on the effectiveness of child-parent psychotherapy with traumatized young children and their parents.