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Alan Stein
Alan Stein is a British child psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for Lancet series on refugee and perinatal mental health.
Allan L. Reiss
Allan L. Reiss is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist at Stanford University who uses neuroimaging to study neurogenetic disorders including fragile X, Turner, and Williams syndromes.
Allyson Mackey
Allyson Mackey is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist and associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on how brain changes drive shifts in the mind.
Anita Thapar
Anita Thapar is a Welsh child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cardiff University known internationally for Lancet studies on the genetics of ADHD and youth depression.
Anne Marie Albano
Anne Marie Albano is a clinical psychologist, professor of medical psychology at Columbia University, and director of its anxiety clinic, known for the CAMS youth anxiety treatment study.
Atıf Rahman
Atıf Rahman, also published as Atif Rahman, is a child psychiatrist at the University of Liverpool known for the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression.
Beatrix Hamburg
Beatrix Hamburg, known as Betty Hamburg, was an American child and adolescent psychiatrist who pioneered youth peer counseling and was the first black woman to graduate from Yale School of Medicine.
Bradley S. Peterson
Bradley S. Peterson is an American psychiatrist and developmental neuroscientist who uses magnetic resonance imaging to study childhood psychiatric disorders at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Britt Wray
Britt Wray is a human and planetary health researcher, author, and broadcaster who directs CIRCLE at Stanford School of Medicine, studying climate change's mental health impacts on young people.
David Mataix‐Cols
David Mataix-Cols is a clinical psychologist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at Karolinska Institutet, known for reshaping how obsessive-compulsive disorder is classified and treated.
David Shaffer
David Shaffer (1936-2023), South African-born Columbia child psychiatrist and Irving Philips Professor, pioneered psychological autopsy studies of teen suicide, created Columbia TeenScreen, and led development of the DISC and C-GAS; ex-husband of Anna Wintour.
Felton Earls
Felton Earls (1942–2026) was an American child psychiatrist and epidemiologist at Harvard who showed that collective efficacy, neighbors' shared trust and willingness to act, predicts lower neighborhood violence.
George Patton
George C Patton (1954–2022) was an Australian child and adolescent psychiatrist at Melbourne's Centre for Adolescent Health who chaired the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.
Gregory A. Fabiano
Gregory A. Fabiano is an American clinical child psychologist and professor at Florida International University whose 174-study meta-analysis found behavioral treatment works as well as medication for childhood ADHD.
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson is an American child psychiatry researcher at the University of California, Irvine, known for decades of work on ADHD, including the MTA treatment study.
Jon McClellan
Jon McClellan is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist, a University of Washington professor who studies rare mutations behind schizophrenia and autism.
Joseph Biederman
Joseph Biederman (1947–2023) was an Argentine-trained American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the field of pediatric psychopharmacology, treating psychiatric disorders in children.
Judith L. Rapoport
Judith L. Rapoport, born Judith Helen Livant, was an American child psychiatrist who led the NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch from 1984 to 2017 and wrote The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing.
Justin Parent
Justin Parent is an American clinical child psychologist, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the KiDS Lab who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-born American psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins; founded US academic child psychiatry, wrote the first English textbook Child Psychiatry (1935), and described early infantile autism in 1943.
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009) was an American child psychiatrist who moved the field from psychoanalysis to empirical trials, running the first studies of Ritalin in overactive children at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard, also known as Louise Howard, is a British perinatal psychiatrist and Professor Emerita of Women's Mental Health at King's College London, appointed OBE in 2023.
Martin H. Teicher
Martin H. Teicher is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directs the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and studies how childhood maltreatment alters brain development.
Melanie Pellecchia
Melanie Pellecchia is an American psychologist and implementation scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who studies community delivery of early autism interventions and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Neill Epperson
Cynthia Neill Epperson is an American reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist who chairs psychiatry at the University of Colorado and studies hormones, stress, and women's mental health.
Samuele Cortese
Samuele Cortese is an Italian-born child psychiatrist and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Southampton, known for large meta-analyses of ADHD treatment.
Stuart L. Brown
Stuart L. Brown is an American psychiatrist who founded the National Institute for Play and argues childhood play deprivation is linked to later violence, based on thousands of clinical play histories.
Young-Shin Kim
Young-Shin Kim is a child psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist known for her 2011 study finding 2.64% autism prevalence in 55,266 South Korean schoolchildren, and for research on bullying and youth psychopathology.