Speakers
CHRISTINA BOISSEAU, PHD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Exposure-Based Treatment for Anxiety
Dr. Boisseau received her BS in Psychology from Duke University and her MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Boston University. She completed a predoctoral residency and a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, and was an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown before joining the faculty of Northwestern. Dr. Boisseau's research background is in anxiety, obsessive-compulsive spectrum, and eating disorders, with a focus on examining underlying diatheses both within and across traditional diagnostic categories. Dr. Boisseau's work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brown Institute for Brain Sciences and the Norman Prince Neuroscience Institutes. She an original coauthor of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders and maintains a clinical practice focused on the treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders.
MICHELLE G. CRASKE, PHD
Distinguished Professor
Joanne and George Miller and Family Endowed Chair (BRI)
Director, Anxiety and Depression Research Center
UCLA Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Miller Endowed Chair, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, and Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge. She has published extensively in the area of fear, anxiety and depression, including over 460 peer reviewed journal articles as well as academic books and several self-help books and therapist guides. She has been the recipient of extramural funding since 1993 for research projects pertaining to risk factors for anxiety and depression among children and adolescents, cognitive and physiological aspects of anxiety and panic attacks, neural mediators of behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders, fear extinction and neural mechanisms of exposure therapy, implementation of treatments for anxiety and depression in primary care and community settings, and constructs and neuro-circuitries of positive valence and negative valence underlying anxiety and depression and their treatment.
JENNY CONVISER, PSYD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Childhood Anxiety and Eating Disorder Risk: The Perfect Storm
A Call for Cultural Change
Jenny H. Conviser, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine, and on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Conviser is Certified in both Sport Psychology and Child and Family Therapy. She specializes in eating and weight-related disorders, couples therapy, sports psychology and women's' health. She enjoys research, writing and professional speaking opportunities. Recent national conference presentations addressed topics such as Binge Eating and Weight, Preventing Eating Disorders, Parent-Child Feeding Practices, and Weight Bias and Discrimination in America. Dr. Conviser believes in informing clients about psychotherapy treatment and eliminating any mystery in the treatment process. Her interactive approach to therapy helps clients feel comfortable and cared for
JOHN G. CSERNANSKY, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Csernansky serves as the Lizzie Gilman Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His research interests include in vivo neuroimaging of neuropsychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia and Alzheimer disease, clinical trials of cognition-enhancing drugs, and the development of valid animal models for neuropsychiatric disorders. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, and has also authored several chapters and books, and his research program has received grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as several foundations and pharmaceutical companies. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member and officer of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He has served as an Associate Editor of Schizophrenia Bulletin and on the Editorial Board of Schizophrenia Research and Neuropsychopharmacology
CLAUDIA HAASE, PHD
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Tears and Fears across the Life Span
Claudia Haase is a life-span developmental psychologist. Her research program examines age-related changes as well as sources and consequences of individual differences in emotion and motivation across the life span in individuals and couples. Her work uses multiple methods (i.e., rating dials, behavioral observations, autonomic physiology, genotyping, structural neuroimaging, questionnaires), diverse study designs (e.g., experimental and longitudinal), and single-subjects as well as dyadic approaches. Much of her research has been devoted to understanding how basic paradigms and insights from affective, relationship, and motivation science can be used to understand adaptive development across the life span. More recently, she has started to apply this knowledge to examine psycho- and neuropathology across the life span, including psychopathology in adolescence and young adulthood (i.e., youth at ultra-high risk for the development of psychosis) and neurodegenerative disease in late life (i.e., Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia). Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Retirement Research Foundation.
DANIEL PINE, MD
Chief, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience (SDAN)
Co-Chief, Emotion and Development Branch (E & D)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program
Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Anxiety: Clinical and Neuroscience Features
Daniel S. Pine, MD is Chief, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program. After graduating from medical school at the University of Chicago, Dr. Pine spent 10 years in training and research on child psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Since medical school, he has been engaged continuously in research focusing on the epidemiology, biology, and treatment of pediatric mental illnesses. His areas of expertise include biological and pharmacological aspects of mood, anxiety, and behavioral disorders in children, as well as classification of psychopathology across the lifespan. This expertise is reflected in more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. Currently, his research group is examining the degree to which mood and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents are associated with underlying abnormalities in the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and associated brain regions.
SALLY TARBELL, PHD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Anxiety and Pediatric Chronic Illness: The Elephant in the Exam Room
Dr. Tarbell received her PhD in Clinical-Counselling Psychology from York University, Toronto Canada. She then completed a fellowship in Research Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard Medical School. She has dedicated over 30 years of clinical and research effort to the integration of behavioral health in medical and pediatric settings. She most recently served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Children’s Hospital Colorado, where she led efforts to efforts to integrate behavioral health into both primary and specialty pediatric care. She currently is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, where she works within the Division of Gastroenterology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Dr. Tarbell’s research has focused on the interplay between psychological factors, psychiatric conditions and medical disorders. Her current translational research investigates the comorbidity of pediatric anxiety in functional gastrointestinal disorders with focus on mechanisms that may contribute to these associations, including autonomic dysfunction, attention bias, and coping responses to stress.
JENNIFER TACKETT, PHD
Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
The Role of Child Neuroticism in the Hierarchical Classification of Psychopathology
Jennifer Tackett received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota with minors in statistics, personality, and behavior genetics. She is also a graduate of the Texas Academy of Math and Science and Texas A&M University, and has held previous faculty appointments at the University of Toronto and the University of Houston. She is a senior editor at Collabra: Clinical Psychology and an associate editor at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. She is also a former associate editor at the Journal of Personality, Perspectives in Psychological Science, the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, the Journal of Personality Disorders, Assessment, and the Journal of Research in Personality.
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STEWART SHANKMAN, PHD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief of Psychology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Are Anxiety and Depression Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Dr. Shankman's research focuses on the relation between depression and anxiety disorders, with an emphasis on neurobehavioral processes that are common vs. specific emotional between the two. Currently, Dr. Shankman is the Principal Investigator and co-investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects.
JOHN T. WALKUP, MD
Margaret C. Osterman Professor of Psychiatry
Chair, Pritzker Department of Psychiatry of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Childhood Onset Anxiety Disorders in the Age of Anxiety
John T. Walkup, MD, is Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chi-cago. He also serves as Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci-ences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His scholarly activity covers three main areas of innovation and investi-gation. His work with movement disorders, specifically Tourette syndrome and the other tic disorders, uniquely spans psychiatry, child psychiatry and neurology. His expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry clinical trials focuses on the development and evaluation of psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments and lastly, he has been involved in developing and evaluating interventions to re-duce the large mental health disparities facing Native American youth, specifically drug use and suicide prevention.
