CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Harold S. Koplewicz, MD
Founder & President, Child Mind Institute
Dr. Koplewicz is one of the nation's leading child and adolescent psychiatrists and president and founder of the Child Mind Institute, an organization dedicated to transforming mental health care for children everywhere. Dr. Koplewicz also founded the NYU Child Study Center in 1997, and was director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research from 2006-2011. Dr. Koplewicz was honored by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He is repeatedly recognized in America's Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America, and New York Magazine's "Best Doctors in New York."
An award-winning, master clinician and advocate for children and teens with psychiatric disorders, Dr. Koplewicz is regularly featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Good Day NY, ABC's NIGHTLINE, Anderson Cooper: 360, PBS: Frontline and MetroFocus, and Huffpost LIVE. He has been a guest on The Oprah Show, NPR and is quoted and contributed in the New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Parents Magazine, Scholastic, Babble.com, Huffington Post, and other national publications, blogs and websites. Since 1997, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Dr. Koplewicz is the author of several acclaimed books, including It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents and More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression.
