Aradhana Bela Sood, MD, MSHA, is Senior Professor for Child Mental Health Policy and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She is the past Medical Director of VCU's Virginia Treatment Center for Children and recent past Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Sood is also secretary of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Robert Cohen, PhD, is an independent policy and program development consultant and visiting scholar at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Cohen has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of children's mental health and youth violence prevention policy and programs from a comprehensive, systems-based ecological perspective for the past 45 years.