Short Biographies of the Speakers Jair de Jesus Mari Dr. Jair de Jesus Mari took his medical degree in the Santo Andre ABC Medical Faculty in 1977 and completed his residency training in psychiatry at the Civil Servant State Hospital of São Paulo in 1979. In 1986 he concluded his Ph.D. in the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London. In 1987, he became a tenure affiliated professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo. In 1991 he went to the McMaster University, Canada, as a post-doc, to study clinical epidemiology, and systematic reviews and metanalysis. He went back to Brazil in 1992, and became full tenure professor of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo in 1996. Since his stay in London he has published more than 200 scientific papers and supervised several post-graduation students. He is a top level researcher from the National Research Brazilian Council (CNPq) with studies in the followings areas: Psychiatric Epidemiology, Systematic Reviews, Sociocultural Issues on the Course of Schizophrenia, Health Services Evaluation, Violence and Mental Health and Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders. Nowadays he is the head of the post-graduation program of the Department of Psychiatry of the Federal University of São Paulo, and Honorary Visiting Professor, in the Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London. Cristiane S. Duarte Dr. Duarte is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research is based on innovative and large-scale population-based studies designed to generate knowledge of high public health impact about mental disorders in children and adolescents. In every instance, the goal has been to use state-of-the art sampling, recruitment and assessment methodologies to generate population-based, intervention-relevant information to improve mental health outcomes among underserved, hard-toreach, frequently understudied, populations, with particular emphasis on Latino youth. She has participated in highly influential studies of Latino youth in the US, Puerto Rico and Brazil. This work has been supported by agencies such as the US National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). As part of her work in Brazil, Dr. Duarte has several established partnerships all aimed at generating solid empirical evidence related to mental health services for children, geared towards informing 1
evolving Brazilian public health strategies of worldwide interest. This direction is clear in her contribution to the Violence and Child Rights Research Consortium, which will allow the examination of longitudinal patterns of service utilization by youth with MH disorders living in a violent area. This is a topic yet to be comprehensively addressed in a population-based sample in a low- middleincome country in Latin America. Dr. Duarte is also part of international collaborations addressing topics of high importance in global mental health such as child mental health awareness, exposure to traumatic events, relationship between health and mental health, or impact of cultural experiences on the development of mental disorders. She has published several articles in psychiatric, psychological, public health, and pediatric journals. Andre Sourander Andre Sourander, MD, professor in child psychiatry, Turku University; Head of the Research center for Child Psychiatriy, University of Turku; chief physician, Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital; specialist in child & adolescent psychiatry Oddgeir Friborg Oddgeir Friborg works as an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø. He defended his doctoral thesis in 2006 on the topic of resilience and scale validation of the construct. He has held his current position since 2008 and is concerned with research on topics related to health and clinical psychology, with a particular focus on resilience protective factors, youth development, eating disorder problems, as well as scale development and psychometrics in general. In his talk, a short introduction to the resilience construct will be given, and issues related to measuring the construct will be presented. Cross-cultural data on the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) will be presented, including data from Brazil. Cristiane Silvestre de Paula, MSc, PhD I am psychologist, with Master and PhD (concluded in 2005) from the Department of Psychiatry at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), focused in Clinical 2
Epidemiology. In 2002/2003 I spent 9 months as a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US. Since 2005, I am Associate Professor at the Developmental Disorder Post Graduation Program at the Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo and Researcher at the Social Psychiatry Division of the Department of Psychiatry at UNIFESP. I am also Member of two international networks of Epidemiology: International Clinical Epidemiologic Network (INCLEN), since 1998, and International Autism Epidemiology Network (IAEN), since 2007. My main research interests are: (a) epidemiological studies related to child and adolescent mental health and violence, (b) child and adolescent mental health services research, and (c) research in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Currently, I am the PI of 3 research projects: (1) The Epidemiological Study of Mental Health among Brazilian School Children, the first Brazilian multicenter epidemiological study of child mental health to establish the frequency psychiatric disorders, to identify psychosocial risk factors and to describe mental health service use in representative samples of four Brazilian regions. (2) Training in Child Mental Health for Health Professional from the five Brazilian regions to develop and assess a Brazilian version of the Mental health communication skills for child and adolescent primary care (originally developed at the Johns Hopkins University). (3) Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Delay in Day Care children: a pilot study, to establish ASD frequency rates in children aged 18 a 36 months in public day care centers from a typical Brazilian city and to promote orientation to family and to day care professionals of the detected cases. Wagner Silva Ribeiro, Ph.D. I am a psychologist with a PhD degree from the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (UNIFESP), Department of Psychiatry. As a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry of UNIFESP, I ve been developing research on psychiatric epidemiology, violence and mental health services. After completing a two-year research training at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King s College London, I became an associate researcher at the IoP. After finishing my Ph.D. (May, 2011), I became a research fellow at the Section of Social Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry of UNIFESP, in an International Scientific Consortium between the Federal University of Sao Paulo and University of Tromsø (Norway). Besides being the project coordinator in the Norway-Brazil Consortium, I ve 3
developed other research activities in the fields of epidemiology, service evaluation, research methods and systematic review, as well as teaching activities in the Post-Graduate Program at the Department of Psychiatry UNIFESP, where I coordinate an English-Spoken Journal club, which is the first discipline entirely delivered in English. Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin, MD, MSc, PhD Child and adolescent psychiatrist, researcher in Clinical Epidemiology applied to Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and head of Social Psychiatry Division at the Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. After completing a two-year research training at McMaster University, Canada, and obtaining a master degree in Clinical Epidemiology (1995), I became a member of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), and started to develop collaborative projects. After obtaining a doctoral degree in Psychiatry at UNIFESP (1996), I had the opportunity of becoming the first thesis supervisor in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at UNIFESP. My responsibilities at the Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP include research and teaching/training activities (supervision of post-graduate students). My main research interests are related to at-risk children and adolescents for mental health problems, such as those living under disadvantaged circumstances, exposed to poverty and domestic violence. Additional research interests include anti-social behavior, crime involvement, pregnancy in adolescence, and barriers to receive mental health care. In the past 20 years, I had the opportunity of developing Brazilian versions of international screening and diagnostic questionnaires in child/adolescent mental health, and of participating in national and international research initiatives. John A. Rønning John A. Rønning, professor dr. philos and specialist in clinical child psychology at the University of Tromsø and University Hospital of North Norway, graduated from the University of Bergen in 1980, where he worked as a NRC research fellow and later as associate professor. From 1986 to 1989 he served as a senior lecturer and participated in the development of a regional college (all countries in Southern Africa) for specialist teachers of children with disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia. From 1989 to 1999 he developed and headed the first Regional Centre for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Norway. His favourite professional areas have always been child development and early intervention, and in 1997 he initiated and headed the development of the Premature Project in Tromsø. Presently he is involved in and/or heading several national and 4
international research projects, the latest being the NRC funded project Child Rights and Violence in Brazil. He has published more than 80 scientific papers. 5