Faculty and Staff of the University of Connecticut Health Care Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Margaret Rudin, MS, APRN, PHD
Dr. Rudin is a pediatric psychiatric nurse clinician, a clinical psychologist and staff member of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She provides mental health evaluations and medication management for juvenile justice-involved youths through the HomeCare Program. Dr. Rudin has an interest in trauma in young children.
Anastasia Okoniewski, MSN
Ms. Okoniewski is a pediatric psychiatric nurse practitioner, a recent graduate of Yale School of Nursing. She is a staff member of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Her experiences have involved inpatient management of acutely ill children and adolescents and management of a sexual offenders treatment unit in Baltimore. She is working in the HomeCare Program with juvenile justice-involved youth.
Lisa A. Fraleigh, D.O.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Lisa Fraleigh completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance Program of Harvard University. Following completion of her fellowship, Dr. Fraleigh was involved in early onset bipolar and psychotic disorders research at the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Research Program at the Center for Child and Adolescent Development at Cambridge Health Alliance. During that time, she participated in the NIMH funded Treatment of Early Onset Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (TEOSS) Study. Other areas of interest include early childhood trauma and adolescent substance abuse. Dr. Fraleigh was an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an attending psychiatrist on the Adolescent Assessment Unit at Somerville Hospital before joining the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.