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Eugene V. Beresin, M.D.
(Co-Director) is an internationally known psychiatry educator and
clinician, and the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Training Program at the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean
Hospital consolidated residency training program. He is also a Professor
in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a
past president of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric
Residency Training. With Dr. Olson, he recently co-edited a special issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America on child psychiatry and the media.
Dr. Beresin has been a production and content consultant to HBO
for several of its children's productions (including the Emmy-winning
programs "Classical Baby," "Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001"
and "Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales"), as well
as to prime-time commercial television programs such as "E.R.,"
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Family Law."
He has also consulted to and been interviewed extensively by network
and major market television news organizations on matters related
to mental health. He is the editor of the media column in Academic
Psychiatry, and Associate Editor for Ten Year Reviews of Research
for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry.
Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D. (Co-Director) is a clinical psychologist
who trained at the Mayo Clinic and who teaches in the Department
of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the Principal Investigator
for a four-year project to promote interest in brain research among
local news viewers and journalists, funded by the National Institute
on Drug Abuse. He has also spent more than 20 years as a print and
broadcast journalist, including seven years writing the internationally
syndicated, weekly "Parent & Child" column for The New York Times.
(That column received the 1990 National Psychology Award from the
American Psychological Association, which cited it as the best writing
about psychology in any newspaper in the United States.)
Dr. Kutner has also written monthly magazine columns on child behavior
for more than a decade for such publications as Parents and
Parenting. He is the author of five books on child development,
as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He consults on child
development and health issues to major corporations and speaks on
these topics nationally and internationally. He also works with academics and clinicians to improve their skills in media outreach, consulting, writing and speaking. He is on the board of advisors of the Rosalynn Carter
Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center in
Atlanta.
In addition, Dr. Kutner is a national Emmy award-winning television
documentary producer and reporter who has worked at both public
and commercial stations, including WNET (PBS-New York) and WCCO
(CBS-Minneapolis). He founded and ran a successful broadcast and
nonbroadcast production company specializing in health and science.
With Dr. Olson, he is coauthor of Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do, published by Simon & Schuster in April, 2008.
Cheryl K. Olson, M.P.H., Sc.D. (Co-Director) is a public health
professional specializing in behavioral health and health communications.
She teaches in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
She was principal investigator for a research project to study the effects of electronic games on preteens and teens, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. This research formed the basis for her book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
Before joining the Center, she worked in Basel, Switzerland as a
strategic communications consultant for Hoffmann-La Roche, focusing
on health-related behavior change. While there, she earned a postgraduate
European Certificate in Pharmaceutical Medicine, under a joint program
of the University of Basel (Switzerland), Louis Pasteur University
(Strasbourg, France), and Albert-Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany)
medical schools. Dr. Olson has also served as an independent consultant
on the design, production and evaluation of media-based interventions
to projects throughout the United States and Europe, for clients
such as the Public Health Institute, Interpharma, the American Council
on Science and Health, and the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General.
Dr. Olson has ghostwritten two New York Times best-selling
books on healthy living, and has just completed another on healthy
aging for women. She wrote regularly about adolescent issues for
Parents magazine. In addition, she is an award-winning documentary
producer focusing on health-related topics; for example, she researched
and wrote the script for a Time Warner videotape on depression (hosted
by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop), and won two CINE
Golden Eagles as producer/director of a series of video productions
on adolescent depression funded and distributed by 4-H.
Richard Falzone, M.D. (Instructor-Psychiatry)
Danielle DeLuca (Center Administrator/Grants Manager)
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