Assessing the Impact of Childhood Interventions on Subsequent Drug Use -- Speaker Biographies

Assessing the Impact of Childhood Interventions
on Subsequent Drug Use

	About the Conference
	Agenda
	Speaker Biographies
		Mark Appelbaum, Ph.D.
		C. Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.
		Duncan B. Clark, M.D., Ph.D.
		E. Jane Costello, Ph.D.
		Nancy Day, M.P.H.
		Naihua Duan, Ph.D.
		Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D.
		Scott W. Henggeler, Ph.D.
		Peter S. Jensen, M.D.
		Peter Kalivas, Ph.D.
		Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D.
		David J. Kolko, Ph.D.
		Robert J. Pandina, Ph.D.
		Audrey Rogers, Ph.D.
		Neal D. Ryan, M.D.
		Ralph Tarter, Ph.D.
		Timothy Wilens, M.D.
		Ken Winters, Ph.D.
	Commissioned Papers
	Selected Bibliography
	Program Contacts

Neal D. Ryan, M.D.

Dr. Ryan is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a Joaquim Puig-Antich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the director of education and director of psychiatric Informatics at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Dr. Ryan’s main research work is in the nosology, psychobiology, and treatment of children and adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders. He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and chapters on these subjects. He is currently principal investigator on a large, NIMH-funded Program Project grant entitled, "Psychobiology of Childhood Anxiety and Depression." He also has ongoing studies of the pharmacological treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression in adolescents.