David Axelson, M.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Child & Adolescent Bipolar Services Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA

Boris Birmaher, M.D.

Scientific Advisory Council Chair
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA

Kelly Botteron, M.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine

Gabrielle Carlson, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stonybrook State University of New York

Kiki Chang, M.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California

Christoph Correll

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Medical Director, Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, New York.

Melissa DelBello, M.D., M.S.

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Co-Director, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio.

Robert L. Findling, M.D.

Director Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio; Rocco L. Motto, M.D. Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jean Frazier, M.D.

Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry - Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UMASS Medical School, Massachusetts.

Mary Fristad, Ph.D.

Director of Research & Psychological Services, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Ohio State University.

Cathryn A. Galanter, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York

Benjamin Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto

Ian Goodyer, M.D.

Profressor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge; 
Director of the Cambridge Language and Speech Project 

Joseph Biederman, M.D. 

Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Chief, Clinical and Research in Pediatric Psychopharmacologiy Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital.

James J. Hudziak, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont. Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Genetics. 

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

Winner of 2002 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award", Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; author of "An Unquiet Mind," "Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament," and "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide." Co-author of the classic textbook, "Manic-Depressive Illness."

Paramjit Joshi, M.D.

Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Behavioral Sciences Children's National Medical Center. Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences & Pediatrics
George Washington University School of Medicine.

Vivian Kafantaris, M.D.

Director of Research in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital. Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

Robert Kowatch, M.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D.

Chief, Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Emotion and Development Branch, Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland; Clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Joan Luby, M.D.

Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Director - Early Emotional Development Program, WAshington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Mani Pavuluri, M.D.,
PhD, FRANZCP 

Past Chair of the The Balanced Mind Foundation
Scientific Advisory Council

Associate Professor, Pediatric Mood Disorders Program; Director, Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago

Neal Ryan, M.D.

Vice-Chair of the The Balanced Mind Foundation Professional Advisory Board
Joaquim Puig-Antich Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D.

Clarene Ross Miller Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Director of the Divison of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Janet Wozniak, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Research Program; ASsistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
General Hospital and McLean Hospital.