Dr. Daniel Bagner
Dr. Bagner conducts research examining interventions for young children and their families. He has specific interests in the prevention and treatment of infants and young children with externalizing behavior problems and other at-risk populations. Dr. Bagner is the author of over 45 research articles and book chapters and has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct his research.
Dr. Marc Atkins
Dr. Atkins has a long-standing interest in the development of effective mental health services for children and families living in high poverty urban communities, and is an active researcher in the areas of childhood ADHD and aggression, and community mental health services for children and families. He is a frequent consultant to national and international organizations and currently serves on two national boards, as Secretary of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, and as Past-President of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53).
Dr. Elisa Shernoff
Dr. Shernoff’s work centers on developing and testing interventions to reduce stress, enhance effectiveness, and increase retention among teachers working in high poverty schools. Her research reflects the overall goal of her work to expand mental health practice in high poverty schools to include supporting teacher effectiveness as a mechanism for promoting positive academic and behavioral outcomes for children.
Dr. Catherine Coccia
Dr. Coccia is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M-Kingsville. Her research interests focus on community-based nutrition education programs for children and families, as well as community participatory research, factors influencing the parent-child relationship, and research work on diverse populations.
Dr. Melanie Dirks
Dr. Dirks is interested in the association between social competence and youth psychopathology, with a particular focus on economically disadvantaged children and adolescents. Current projects examine the associations between perceived social competence and youth anxiety and depression.
Dr. Stefany Coxe
Dr. Coxe’s research focuses on quantitative methods for the social sciences and prevention science, with a particular focus on categorical data analysis, mediation analyses, and statistical programming. She is an assistant professor at Florida International University.
Dr. Elise Cappella
Elise Cappella is a clinical and community psychologist whose research integrates education and psychology with the goal to better understand what disrupts, and alternatively, promotes children’s positive adaptation in schools and communities. Cappella has identified academic and social-emotional functioning among low-income children as priority areas of interest, with a particular focus on the social processes of schooling.
Dr. Dana Rusch
Dr. Rusch has an overarching interest in addressing mental health disparities among ethnic minority youth and families living in urban poverty. Her specific program of research focuses on meeting the mental health needs of youth from Latino immigrant families, with attention to ecological context in the design and implementation of mental health service models.
Dr. Ane Marinez-Lora
Dr. Marinez-Lora is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago in the Psychiatry Department. Her research focuses on dissemination of evidence-based practices and mental health services research, with a particular focus on Latino mental health, school-based mental health services, parent training, social support and parenting strain, and parental school involvement.
Dr. Tara Mehta
Dr. Mehta is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research includes the development of effective and efficient systems to support the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practices in community-based mental health service settings and examining accessible, effective, and sustainable,community-based models of mental health service delivery for children and families living in urban poverty.
Dr. Sonja Schoenwald
Dr. Schoenwald is a Professor of Psychology in the Psychiatry Department at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her work focuses on services research for children and families, and implementation research, with a focus on translating evidence based practices, including Multisystemic Therapy, into usual care settings.
Dr. Charles Glisson
Dr. Glisson is the Chancellor’s Professor and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Dr. Glisson’s research focuses on the organization and delivery of social and mental health services to children and families. He has been principal investigator on multiple major research projects concerned with children’s services funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has written numerous articles in major social work, mental health, and organizational research journals.
Dr. Robert Gibbons
Dr. Gibbons is a Professor of Medicine and Health Studies and the Director of the Center for Health Statistics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on multiple issues related to health and mental health statistics, including non-linear mixed effects models, item response theory, environmental regulatory statistics, and various statistical issues relating to health services research.