UCHC Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty

Daniel F. Connor, M.D.
Dr. Connor is Training Director and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He is Professor of Psychiatry and holds the Lockean Distinguished Chair in Mental Health Education, Research, and Clinical Improvement at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. As a practicing pediatric psychopharmacologist, he has clinical research interests in the areas of pediatric psychopharmacology, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders, disruptive behavioral disorders, maladaptive aggression in referred youths,the clinical case formulation, and public sector child psychiatry. He is the author or co-author of two books and numerous scientific publications, abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Connor is actively involved in clinical teaching of medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Yifrah Kaminer, M.D.
Dr. Kaminer is a research scientist, Co-Director of Research in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of adolescent substance abuse treatment. Dr. Kaminer has received numerous grants from federal, state, and foundation agencies to investigate treatment interventions in adolescent substance abuse. He has an additional area of expertise in the field of adolescent high risk behaviors. He is the editor of a book and is author of numerous scientific articles on adolescent substance abuse. Dr. Kaminer is actively involved in the teaching of psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Julian D. Ford, Ph.D.
Dr. Ford is Co-Director of Research in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Ford is nationally recognized for his work in the area of traumatic developmental stress and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders. He has developed a cognitive therapy based intervention for victims of trauma entitled: Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET). He is the author of numerous scientific articles on adolescentand adult disorders of traumatic stress. Dr. Ford is actively involved in the teaching of graduate students, medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Pablo H. Goldberg, M.D.
Dr. Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Goldberg is director of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders Clinic in the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He provides child and adolescent psychiatry services to court-involved youth through the Department of Psychiatry's HomeCare Project. Dr. Goldberg is actively involved in the teaching of medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Geraldine S. Pearson, MSN, APRN, Ph.D.
Dr. Pearson is Assistant Training Director in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. Dr. Pearson is director of the HomeCAre Program, an innovative program jointly funded by the Connecticut Court Supported Services Division and the Department of Children & Families. The HomeCare Program provides mental evaluation and services to court-involved juveniles with a goal of recidivism prevention. The HomeCare Program is located in Federally Quaalified Health Care Centers around Connecticut and is an active site for training within the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Pearson is actively involved in the teaching of advanced practice nursing students, medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan, Ph.D.
Dr. Briggs-Gowan is a research scientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She holds national recognition for her work in developmental psychopathology, child psychopathology, and the longitudinal assessment of at-risk children. She is federally funded through NIMH for her research, and has authored numerous scientific papers in her field. Dr. Briggs-Gowan is actively involved in the teaching of developmental psychopathology and child psychpathology to medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Robert F. Cole, Ph.D.
Dr. Cole is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School where he specializes in the field of health care policy. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and is a member of the American College of Mental Health Administration. He is actively involved in teaching medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents a seminar on Contemporary Health Systems. He works to develop supportive and collaborative service programs for Connecticut's public health agencies.

Josephine M. Hawke, Ph.D.
Dr. Hawke is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She is a clinical researcher who is conducting studies on juveniles with mental health and substance use problems, including a project that evaluates the efficacy of a clinical treatment intervention for juvenile justice-involved girls with posttraumatic stress disorder. She is published in the areas of substance use treatment for adolescents and juvenile justice. Dr. Hawke teaches medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents the principles of clinical research.

Beth Muller, MSN, APRN.
Ms Muller is a pediatric psychiatric nurse clinician and faculty member of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is also on the clinical faculty of the Yale School of Nursing. She provides mental health evaluations and medication management for juvenile justice-involved youths through the HomeCare Program. Ms Muller has an interest in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She is actively involved in teaching advanced practice nursing students, medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows clinical pediatric psychopharmacology.

Susan Sampl, Ph.D.
Dr. Sampl is a psychotherapist, specializing in family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy of adolescents. She is actively involved in the development of empirically based treatments for adolescents with substance use disorders. She teaches the principles of family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to psychology students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Karen L. Steinberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Steinberg is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She has an academic interest in developmental psychopathology, has published numerous scientific articles in her field, and has received federal funding to investigate mother-infant attachment relationships. She provides trauma-focused clinical case consultation to children and adolescents who are in the care of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. Dr. Steinberg is active in the teaching and supervision of medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.

Elizabeth L. Taylor-Huey, LCSW.
Ms Taylor-Huey directs social work within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She directs the Master Therapists Program for the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is a practicing psychotherapist, is an instructor of family therapy didactics, and is active in the teaching of social work interns, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.

Lisa Fraleigh, D.O.
Dr. Fraleigh is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Health Center. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry. Dr. Fraleigh completed her adult psychiatry training at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ and her child and adolescent psychiatry training at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. Dr. Fraleigh provides outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry services at the Child Outpatient Clinic and with the HomeCare Project. She is actively involved in the teaching of medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

Margaret Rudin APRN, Ph.D.
Margaret Rudin is an advanced practice psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in children and youth mental health services. She has a doctorate degree in clinical psychology with a focus on cross-cultural psychology and trauma. Dr Rudin has worked with children, teens, and adults on inpatient units as well as outpatient community mental health for over 20 years.