Our Boards
Board of Directors
Co-Founder, Acting President, Treasurer: Lynn E. Tesher
Secretary: Susan Seidel
Kathleen Costantini
Arancha Garcia Del Soto, Ph.D.
Arij Gasiunasen
Andrew Himel
Paul M. Levesque
Marcie Lipsitt
Mary Jane McLaughlin
Penny Shore
Susan Strauss
Executive Director, The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, Senior Educator in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, was Elected as a Counselor-at-Large, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, past President, The New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and past President, The American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, Associate Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry and Associate Editor, Journal of Graduate Medical Education. In addition, he is a fellow of the British Institute of Mental Health.
Chief of the Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Program and Co-Director of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He also serves as the endowed chair in early Onset Bipolar Disease and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Psycho-Educational Tester and Advisor for Children and Adolescents, New York, NY
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Child Psychiatry. Director, Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Clinic and Research Program,, specializing in pediatric psychopharmacology and the treatment of depression and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Stanford, CA
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director, Division of Bipolar Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services (In-Cab), Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic , Pittsburgh, PA, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Consultant and Honorary Professor, The Brain Disease Hospital, Xi' an Jiatong University, Xi' xan, China, Faculty at the Cukuova Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
Director of Medical Genetics Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Also Senior Scientific Advisor, Research Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusette General Hospital, Boston, MA, and lecturer Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Professor of Psychiatry (PAR) and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.Vice-Chairman Psychiatry & Research, the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Former recipient of an NIMH Career Development Award, former Director of The Pediatric Bipolar Service at Children's Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and the Clarice Kestenbaum Fellow for Training and Education, New York, NY. She is the author of the DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Director, The Center for Youth Bipolar Disorder at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario
Clinical Director Renaissance Adolescent Services, Syracuse, UT. Clinical Director Legacy Private School and Residential Treatment Center, Syracuse, UT
Founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health, Sudbury, MA. Dr. Hallowell also has a center in New York City. Author of many books, among them are two national bestsellers on ADD, Driven to Distraction and Answers To Distraction.
in Cognition and Neuroscience, Director Pediatric Mood Disorders Center at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicina, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Director of Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders, UCLA Semel Institute, Integrative Study Center for Mood Disorders, Los Angeles, CA. Senior Clinical Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University, Head, Bipolar Collaborative Network, both in Bethesda. MD. Author of Treatment of Bipolar Illness: A Casebook for Clinicians and Patients.
State Certified Diagnostician, Nationally Certified Educational Planner, Founder and President, Rubin Educational Resources, Santa Fe, NM
Psychiatrist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. Formerly Director of the Walk In and Treatment Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Therapist, Aspiro Wilderness Adventure Therapy, Sandy, UT., Dean of Advising, Carlbrook School, Halifax, VA. Formerly Program Director for Turnabout Day Treatment Program, Clinical Supervisor, Norton Behavioral Health, Adjunct Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of Alaska, Clinical Director and Therapist, Outback Therapeutic (Wilderness) Expeditions, Lehi, UT
Professor and Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Unit, and Training Director of the CAP Fellowship Program, University of Navarra Clinic, Pamplona, Spain. In addition, Director Post Graduate Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Sub-Director, Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, University of Navarra Clinic, Pamplona, Spain. Associate Professor, University of Navarra College of Medicine, Spanish National Accreditation Agency (ANECA). Member Of the EUNETHYDIS Guidelines Group and of the Scientific Program Committee of the World Federation of ADHD.
Director, Unique Minds Program, Ackerman Institute And NYU Child Study Center, New York, NY, Senior Faculty Member, Ackerman Institute for the Family. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. Senior Staff in Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic and Research Program and Co-Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Author of Straight Talk About Psychiatric Medications for Kids.
Associate Professor of Psychiarty, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; Director, Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Chair, Quality and Safety, .of Is Your Child Bipolar (hard book), Positive Parenting for Bipolar Kids (paperback)
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Acting Director, Center for Excellence in Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Applied Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Ariel’s Friendship Board
Leon Antar
Luisa Biluoul
Kerry Boydman
Jonathan Cody
Eden R. Dales
Jonathan Handleman
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Marissa Mervis
Neli Cristina Rogers
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