Lisa M. Amaya-Jackson

Dr. Amaya-Jackson is the Michelle Winn Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.  She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with >30 years working in the field of child trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bringing effective treatments to community providers and service systems.Currently she is Co-Director of the federally funded UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - coordinating center for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. She is a co-founder of Durham's Center for Child & Family Health,N.C. - a tri-university collaboration (Duke, UNC-CH, NCCU) that provides evidence-based trauma treatment services and training curricula for community children exposed to violence, maltreatment, and other adverse childhood experiences including medical injury and disasters.  She is past director of the Trauma Evaluation,Treatment, Research & Prevention Services. She co-founded the NC Child Treatment Program (Generally Assembly funded) --a comprehensive, public mental health initiative training clinicians to deliver trauma EBTs across the state. Known for research in assessment, cognitive-behavioral treatment, and effective implementation of child trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions into community practice,  Dr. Amaya-Jackson’s current interests focus on national efforts to increase access and quality of services for children through policy, training, and clinical strategies to create a evidence based, trauma-informed,  mental health workforce.