JPB Research Network Members

Javier Aceves, M.D.

• Professor of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
• Medical Director, Young Children’s Health Center

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Byron D. Amos

• Board Member, Atlanta Board of Education
• CEO, Capacity Builders, Inc.

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Louis Appel, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

• Chief Medical Officer and Director of Pediatrics, People’s Community Clinic

Institutional Bio

W. Thomas Boyce, M.D.

• Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Institutional Bio

Rahil D. Briggs, Psy.D.

• Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Director of Healthy Steps at Montefiore
• Director of Pediatric Behavioral Health Services at Montefiore Medical Group

Institutional Bio

Inger Brown Cheves

• Community Engagement Director, Community Partners

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Kathleen Conroy, M.D., M.S.

• Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Associate Clinical Director, Boston Children’s Primary Care
• Medical Director, Young Parents Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

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Cerella Craig

• Community Mental Health Ambassador, MOMS Partnership

Institutional Bio

Megan R. Gunnar, Ph.D.

• Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
• Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

Institutional Bio

Alise Hegle

• Advocacy Project Manager and Policy Lead
• Office of Innovation and Policy, Children’s Home Society of Washington

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Takao K. Hensch, Ph.D.

• Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
• Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science
• Director, Conte Center for Basic Mental Health Research at Harvard University

Institutional Bio

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Pat Levitt, Ph.D.

• Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, Institute for the Developing Mind, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
• W. M. Keck Provost Professor in Neurogenetics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
• Director, University of Southern California Neuroscience Graduate Program

Institutional Bio

Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.

• Alfred E. Mirsky Professor
• Head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University

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Michael Meaney, C.M., Ph.D., C.Q., F.R.S.C.

• Scientific Director, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
• Researcher, Douglas Institute
• James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
• Director, Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, McGill University

Institutional Bio

Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.

• Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
• Professor of Education, Harvard University

Institutional Bio | The Bucharest Early Intervention Project

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Nora Razon

• Family and Community Engagement Manager, The Primary School

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Suzanne Roberts, M.D.

• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Institutional Bio

Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.

• Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
• Founding Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Full Bio

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Michael F. Troy, Ph.D., L.P.

• Medical Director, Behavioral Health Services
• Associate Medical Director, Neuroscience Institute Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Institutional Bio

Wayne Ysaguirre

• Former President and CEO, Nurtury (formerly Associated Early Care and Education)

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