J John Mann, MD

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Anne Marie Albano, PhD, is a professor of medical psychology, a licensed clinical psychologist, and board-certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology. She serves as Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD) at 3 Columbus Circle, where she oversees clinical services, conducts research, and trains residents, fellows, and psychology postdoctoral fellows and interns. CUCARD provides treatment for children, adolescents, young adults, and adults, offering specialized programs such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for young children (ages 3-8) and the "Launching Emerging Adults Program" (LEAP) for individuals ages 18-28. The clinic employs a developmentally sensitive approach to care, utilizing individual, group, and family-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), along with psychiatric consultation and medication management. Dr. Albano is editor of the journal Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and a past president of both the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). She is a Fellow of APA’s Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), a Fellow of ABCT, and a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. In 2015, she was honored with the "Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Clinical Activities" award from ABCT. Dr. Albano has dedicated her career to the study and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is recognized as an expert diagnostician and cognitive behavioral therapist. Her contributions to the field include co-developing a cognitive behavioral treatment program for adolescents with social phobia and co-authoring treatment manuals for school refusal behavior and adolescent depression. She also co-authored the widely used Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children (ADIS-C). Her book for parents, "You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life" (Avery/Penguin Press, 2013), offers guidance for parents of anxious children. Dr. Albano has authored or co-authored over 90 scholarly articles and book chapters. She conducts clinical research, supervises the research and clinical development of interns and postdoctoral fellows in psychology and psychiatry, and provides advanced training in CBT to senior clinicians. Her work continues to shape the fields of child, adolescent, and young adult mental health care.

Frances Rudnick Levin, MD is the Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the Chief of the Division on Substance Use Disorders at NYSPI/Columbia University. For over twenty years, she served as the Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and for the past sixteen years, she has been the PI of a T32 NIDA funded Substance Abuse Research Fellowship which has been continuously funded since 1994. Dr. Levin graduated from Cornell University Medical College and completed her psychiatric residency at the New York Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic. Subsequently, she graduated from a 2-year combined clinical and research fellowship at the University of Maryland and the Addiction Research Center, the intramural branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Currently, she serves as the Medical Director of the Providers’ Clinical Support System (PCSS), a SAMHSA-supported national training and mentoring initiative focused on addressing the opioid use disorder crisis. Also, she is the Medical Director of a SAMHSA-supported State Targeted Response technical assistance grant (the Opioid Response Network) to address the national opioid epidemic. Dr. Levin, working with other senior faculty, inaugurated the university-wide Center for Healing of Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders: Enhancing Intervention Development and Implementation (CHOSEN) in 2020 and serves as one of the senior Directors. Moreover, she is the principal investigator of several federal grants, including a K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award as well as a Co-Investigator on numerous other grants. Her current research interests include pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment interventions for opioid, cocaine and marijuana use disorders, and treatment approaches for adults with substance use disorders and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder along with other psychiatric illnesses. Dr. Levin has over two-hundred and fifty articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics including treatments of substance use disorders, assessment, and treatment of co-occurring psychiatric illnesses and vulnerabilities associated with substance use disorders. She has served on several advisory panels and ad-hoc federal grant review groups and was a member of the NIDA – Initial Review Group: Training and Career Development Subcommittee for eight years and served as a member to the NIDA Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addiction (IPTA). She is currently on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), the College on Drug Dependence (CPDD), and the American Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD). She is an editorial board member of three journals, past President of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and past Chair of the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry.