Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D., is Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development at UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Child Trauma Research Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She directs the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a center of SAMHSA National Child Traumatic Stress Network. She is the senior developer of Child-Parent Psychotherapy, an evidence-based treatment for traumatized children aged birth-five broadly used nationally and internationally as an evidence-based treatment for traumatized young children and their parents or caregivers. Her research involves treatment outcome studies with traumatized young children from low-income and under-represented minority groups. She is the author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler, described as “groundbreaking” and now in its second edition to mark its 25th year in continuous print. She is also the author of numerous professional books and articles on early childhood mental health. Her work has been translated to several languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, and is used to increase understanding and foster dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians working with bereaved and traumatized young children and their families. Born in Paraguay, she received her professional training in Israel and the United States. Her cross-cultural experience as a Jewish Latina informs her commitment to increasing access and raising the standard of care for low-income and minority children and families. She is on national organizational boards and in 2019 was appointed to the California Early Childhood Policy Council. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including in recent years the 2016 Rene Spitz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH), 2016 Hero Award from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, 2017 Whole Child Award from the Simms-Mann Institute, 2018 Blanche Ittleson Award from the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, 2019 Paulina Kernberg Award from the Weill Cornell School of Medicine, and 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and their Families.

Disclosures: Financial - Dr Lieberman receives a salary for her role as Professor & Vice Chair for Faculty Development at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She will receive a speaking fee from Profectum Foundation for her presentation at this Conference.
Non-Financial - No relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Dr. Gunsberg is in private practice in New York City and sees children of all ages, families, and adults; she is a consulting editor for the journal, Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Disclosures: Financial - Dr Gunsberg receives a honoraria for her position in her private practice.
Non-Financial Dr Gunsberg is the Co-chair, Psychoanalysis and the Law Discussion Group, American Psychoanalytic Association

Dr. Serena Wieder is the Clinical Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation, dedicated to advancing the development and infant mental health of all children, including children, adolescents and adults with autism and special needs through training and educational programs. She also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders with the late Stanley Greenspan. Dr. Wieder is a Board Member of Zero to Three and also serves on advisory boards to various programs serving infant mental health and other special needs. She established DIR-Israel and provides consultation and training to international and national programs.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Wieder has pioneered important approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health and developmental disorders. She co-developed the DIR model with Stanley Greenspan, edited two diagnostic manuals for infants and young children, and created models for interdisciplinary post-graduate case based training and work with parents. She has co-chaired and organized national and international conferences integrating development, neuroscience and intervention approaches for nearly 20 years. Dr. Wieder also developed approaches to integrate visual-spatial knowledge to advance emotional and cognitive development. Her research interests concern
follow up studies of children on the autism spectrum who have received DIR model comprehensive interventions and the evaluation of training and educational programs.

Dr. Serena Wieder co-authored Engaging Autism, The Child With Special Needs and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with Stanley Greenspan, M.D. They also co-edited Infants in Multi-Risk Families as well as the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children (DMIC) and the original Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC 03). Most recently, Dr. Wieder co-authored Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement with Harry Wachs, O.D. She has published numerous journal and book chapters and presents at multiple conferences nationally and internationally.

Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Wieder is in private practice and receives salary. Dr Wieder is author of Engaging Autism and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, co-authored with Stanley Greenspan. They also chaired the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children and Zero to Three Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy; The Child With Special Needs and receives royalties from these books. Dr Wieder has also co-authored a book with Dr Harry Wachs, Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling and Movement, and receives royalties.
Non-Financial: Dr Wieder is the Clinical Director of Profectum Foundation.

Dr. Foley is a founding board member of the New York and Pennsylvania State Associations of Infant Mental Health. He is a senior faculty member of the DIR Profectum Academy. Dr Foley is a retired tenured faculty member of the program in School-Clinical Child Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Director Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Infant Mental Heath and Develomental Practice at Adelphi University. Dr. Foley is the co-author of three books and has written over 40 scholarly articles and chapters. Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Young Children is soon to be published by National Zero to Three. Dr. Foley lectures widely nationally and internationally.

Disclosures:
Financial: Consultant for New York Center for Child Development & NYC/OMH Training and Technical Assistance Center and Larry Zier Associates , receives consulting fee.
Non-Financial: Conference Committee Planning Member, Faculty member of Profectum Foundation. Member of New York Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. She is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults. She is a trainer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). She is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. Dr. Delahooke has dedicated her career to promoting compassionate, relationship-based neurodevelopmental interventions for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional, and learning differences. She is the author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children (PESI, 2017) and Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges (PESI, 2019). Dr. Delahooke’s popular blog and website are at www.monadelahooke.com.

Disclosures:
Financial: No relevant financial disclosures.
Non-Financial: Dr Delahooke is a Faculty member of Profectum Foundation.

Connie Lillas, Ph.D., MFT, RN, is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Training Institute with a background in high-risk maternal-child nursing, family systems, developmental psychoanalysis, and is a National Graduate ZERO TO THREE Fellow. Connie has a full-time private practice, specializing in dual diagnosis across both developmental delays and mental health concerns for birth-to-five-year-olds and their families. She donates her community service time to a pilot called Fostering Family Partnerships where she serves as a Court Team Liaison for child welfare reform in South Central Los Angeles. Her duties include training court personnel from judges to social workers to infant mental health specialists. In addition, she trains local, national, and international cross-sector communities on the use of the Neurorelational Framework (NRF, 2009) as a common and unifying language that all sectors can use in an effort to decrease discipline-specific fragmentation and to increase cross-sector collaboration. Her book is a part of W. W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series.

Disclosures:
Financial: Dr Lillas is an author, with W. W. Norton receives Intellectual Property Rights and Royal. Author with NRF Institute Research to Resilience receives Consulting Fee, Intellectual Property Rights and Speaking Fee
Non-Financial: Dr Lillas is a Faculty Member of Profectum Foundation.