Leadership
Board of Directors
Officers
Members Emeriti
General (Ret) Benjamin Griffin
Past Chairman
Sandy Schwartz
Past Chairman
General (Ret) Thomas A. Schwartz
Past Chairman
Lieutenant General (Ret) H.G. Taylor
Past Chairman
Science Advisory Board
Colonel (Ret) Eric M. Flake, M.D., FAAP – Co-Chair
US Air Force; Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University; Chief of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Madigan Army Medical Center – Hear from Dr. Flake
Patricia E. Lester, M.D. – Co-Chair
Associate Director Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress; Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
Richard M. Lerner, Ph.D. – Officer
Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science; Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University
Ronald S. Palomares-Fernandez, Ph.D. – Officer
Associate Professor, School Psychology Doctoral Program Director, Department of Psychology & Philosophy, Texas Woman’s University
Sarah L. Friedman, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Psychology, the George Washington University
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine – Hear from Dr. Ginsburg
Elizabeth J. Hisle-Gorman, MSW, PhD
Director of the Military Family Research Division and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Colonel David A. Klein, M.D., MPH
US Air Force; Program Director, Family Medicine Residency, David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA; Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University
Leanne K. Knobloch, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Graduate Study, Department of Communication, University of Illinois – Hear from Dr. Knobloch
Jacqueline V. Lerner, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College
Gregory A. Leskin, Ph.D.
Director, Military and Veteran Families Program, UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Los Angeles, CA – Hear from Dr. Leskin
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D.
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
Ann S. Masten, Ph.D., LP
Distinguished Mcknight University Professor of Child Psychology and the Director of Project Competence, University of Minnesota
Daniel F. Perkins, Ph.D.
Professor of Family and Youth Resiliency and Policy, and Principal Scientist and Founder, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State, the Pennsylvania State University