Prof. Andrea Danese

 is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK and at the Child Study Center, Yale University. The research from his team focuses on childhood trauma, and he has published widely on its measurement and consequences, the mechanisms through which it affects health, and the prevention and treatment of trauma-related psychopathology. Professor Danese is also Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at the National & Specialist CAMHS Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK. He is the General Secretary of the European Society for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Child & Brain Development Programme, and the Academic Secretary of the Association of Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH). He is Editor-at-large of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and on the Editorial Board of several other scientific journals.