Wednesday, October 25
4:15 – 6:00 p.m. (open)
Plenary Address: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Legacy and Challenge of Child Traumatic Stress
Robert S. Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H. Co-Director, UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Director, UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program
Dr. Robert S. Pynoos is a Professor of Psychiatry in Residence and the Director of the Trauma Psychiatry Program in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Dr. Pynoos is responsible for leading and coordinating a nationwide network of academic- and community-based centers dedicated to raising the standard of care and improving access to services for traumatized children, families, and communities throughout the United States.
Dr. Pynoos has served as Chair for the William T. Grant Consortium on Adolescent Bereavement and for the MacArthur Foundation Network Study Group on Children’s Responses to Traumatic Stress. He has been a consultant to UNICEF for Kuwait after the Gulf War and has had a collaborative partnership with UNICEF to conduct a long-term post-war recovery program for adolescents in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was an invited participant to the 1999 White House Strategy Session on Children, Violence and Responsibility; the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health; and the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers. Dr. Pynoos provided consultation with First Lady Laura Bush in regard to the needs of children and families after 9/11. He served as a consultant to the United States Department of Education after the Oklahoma City bombing; to the pringfield, Oregon Public School District after the Thurston High School shooting; to Jefferson County Mental Health after the Columbine High School tragedy; to the New York City Board of Education, the New York State Office of Mental Health, and the New York City Department of Health in planning post-September 11 mental health responses. Following the hurricane Katrina in 2005, he was invited by the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services to join Secretary Margaret Spellings and Substance Abuse and Health Services Administration Director Charles Currie to provide on-site consultation with school districts in the hurricane-affected states.
Dr. Pynoos has received numerous honors including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Award for his outstanding contribution on child witnesses to homicide, the National Organization for Victim Assistance Award for research, the American Psychiatric Association Bruno Lima Award for excellence in disaster psychiatry, and the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the 2004 American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, and most recently the 2005 UCLA Center for Community Partnership’s Ann C. Rosenfield Special Recognition award for his efforts following the December 2004 tsunami disaster in Asia.
AACAP Fellow Ronald Filippi, M.D. endowed the AACAP’s Karl Menninger Plenary to honor his mentor, Karl Menninger, M.D. Dr. Filippi trained under Dr. Menninger, a man who impressed him with his commitment to nurturing early career psychiatrists, the Menninger Clinic, and the families he treated. Dr. Menninger was a member of the Menninger family that founded the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He wrote The Human Mind and The Crime of Punishment and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
