Friday, October 26 - SOLD OUT  
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. (ticket) 

Dr. Zeanah is Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane. Dr. Zeanah has a longstanding interest in infant mental health, and his research and clinical interests concern the effects of abuse and serious deprivation on young children, attachment, risk and protective factors in development, psychopathology in early childhood, and infant-parent relationships. He is one of the Principal Investigators on the “Bucharest Early Intervention Project,” a longitudinal intervention study of severely deprived, institutionalized young children, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. He is also a supervising child psychiatrist to Early Childhood Supports and Services, a statewide Infant Mental Health program in Louisiana. Dr. Zeanah is the Editor of the Handbook of Infant Mental Health, which is soon to be in its third edition from Guilford Press. This breakfast session considers the contemporary challenges of treating children less than five years old in clinical settings.