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Craig Garfield, MD, MAPP is a Professor of Pediatrics and of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and a practicing pediatrician at the Lurie Children’s Hospital (LCH) of Chicago. In 2020 he became the founder and director of the Family and Child Health Innovations Program (FCHIP), which focuses on how to support families in all their diversity and is buoyed by our motto that “Children thrive when families thrive”. He uses quantitative and qualitative methods in his work, and is intrigued as much in the numbers and data as he is in hearing the voices of those often unheard. Career highlights include authoring all three of the AAP’s statements on Fathers and Pediatrics, contributing to the scientific evidence of the “dad bod, and collaboration with the CDC to create the first-ever public health surveillance system for fathers, called PRAMS for Dads. He is honored to have been a “Thinker in Residence” at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia.

Derek McCormack is the Director of the Raising Children Network, Australia's trusted online resource providing comprehensive, evidence-based information for parents and caregivers. With a background in science communication, knowledge translating and parenting support, McCormack leads the Raising Children Network in its mission to empower parents with the knowledge and tools they need to raise confident and thriving children. He is a passionate advocate for early childhood education and accessible parenting support, driving initiatives that reach families across Australia and beyond through user-friendly articles, videos, and interactive resources.

Gregory A. Fabiano, Ph.D. is a professor of Psychology at Florida International University. His interests are in the area of evidence-based assessments and treatments for children with ADHD and the engagement of caregivers, particularly male caregivers, in treatment. He is author on over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and he has written two books on effective school-based interventions. A cross-cutting theme throughout his work is developing intervention programs that are effective for children and families within the contexts of their everyday environments. Dr. Fabiano’s work has been continuously funded by federal agencies and foundations since 2006. In 2007 Dr. Fabiano was nominated by the Department of Education and invited to the White House to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest honor for early career investigators.

Dr. Prinz attended UCLA and then completed the Bachelor of Arts in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his doctorate in psychology with a specialty in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Beginning in 2020 under his leadership as Director, Dr. Prinz established the UofSC Research Center for Child Well-Being (RCCWB) as principal investigator of an NIH/NIGMS COBRE grant, in collaboration with Associate Director Dr. Michael Beets. The RCCWB conducts prevention research impacting the well-being of children ages 2 to 10, with the dual goal of: (1) reducing risk for social, emotional, and behavioral problems, and (2) decreasing unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. Dr. Prinz is the principal investigator and Co-Director of the UofSC’s longest funded NIH T32 predoctoral research training program—the UofSC Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program (BBIP). BBIP provides extensive training to excellent students in epidemiology, exercise science, and psychology doctoral programs. Dr. Prinz is the founding and continuing Editor-in-Chief (in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Ollendick, Virginia Tech University) of the Springer scientific journal Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, which was launched in 1998 and has achieved an Impact Factor of 7.41.

Beth Stormshak, PhD, director of the Prevention Science Institute, has expertise in the area of prevention, including prevention of substance use, problem behavior, and later mental health problems in children and youths. Her research focuses on the development of family-centered, model-driven interventions designed to reduce problem behavior and promote successful developmental transitions. She has served as the principal investigator on multiple grants, including randomized trials that tested the efficacy and effectiveness of family-centered models of prevention to reduce risk behavior in early childhood, in school-age children, and in adolescents, with a primary focus on enhancing parenting skills and behavioral management.