Collaborating Investigators
Daniel Shaw, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Shaw is interested in the development and prevention of early problem behaviors, with a primary interest in preventing and tracing the development of antisocial behavior. He is currently working as a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Gordon Harold, Ph.D.
University of Sussex
Dr. Harold is interested in the role of the family as a context for understanding children’s normal and abnormal psychological development; the interplay between genetic and family relationship factors, children’s psychological development, and research on family influences on children. Currently, he is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex.
Laura Scaramella, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
Dr. Scaramella is interested in understanding genetic and environmental influences on the emergence of problem behaviors during childhood and adolescence. She is currently working as the Director of the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Misaki Natsuaki, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside
Dr. Natsuaki is interested in developmental psychopathology during childhood and adolescence, with a particular focus on the development of emotional and behavioral problems, biological and contextual interaction, and pubertal transition. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Phillip A. Fisher, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Dr. Fisher is interested in the effects of early stressful experiences on children’s neurobiological and psychological development and evaluating prevention and treatment programs for improving functioning and brain plasticity with therapeutic interventions in children. Currently, he is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center on the Developing Child and a member of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, both based at Harvard University.
Rand Conger, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Dr. Conger is interested in increasing understanding of how families promote the health and well being of individual family members, including during stressful times, such as downturns in the economy. He currently works as a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies for the University of California, Davis.
Sharon Lambert, Ph.D.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Dr. Lambert is interested in understanding the nature and course of internalizing problems in urban and African American adolescents, and understanding how the different contexts of development, particularly the neighborhood environment, contribute to child and adolescent adjustment.
In Memoriam
John Reid, Ph.D.
Passed in 2012
Dr. Reid was the Director of the Oregon Prevention Research Center (OPRC), which was founded in 1990. Dr. Reid is known for his investigation of family factors in prevention and promotion, his specialization of observation methodologies in randomized trials, and his development of several notable school-based randomized intervention trials. Dr. Reid’s prevention program, Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers, has received national recognition as a Promising Program for Safe and Drug Free Schools. Dr. Reid served on task forces to try to determine the most effective intervention for delinquency and he chaired several National Institute of Mental Health grant-evaluation committees.
Xiaojia Ge, Ph.D.
1954 – 2009
Dr. Ge was a Professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research interests were on the emotional and behavioral development of children and adolescents. He was conducting research on the influence of pubertal transition on adolescent emotional development and on the interaction between biological and psychosocial factors in child development.