Charles Zeanah

Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., M.D., is the Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and Executive Director of the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center.  Dr. Zeanah conducts research on the effects of abuse and neglect on young children and on interventions designed to help them recover. He has directed a community-based intervention program for abused and neglected infants and toddlers in the New Orleans area for more than a decade and been a Co-Principal Investigator ion the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, an intervention study with young children in institutions in Romania.  His major clinical and research interests have been in the area of infant mental health, especially in understanding infants' development in the context of the infant-parent relationships.  Dr. Zeanah also has studied psychopathology in young children, and in particular disorders of attachment, posttraumatic symptomatology in young children, and interventions for young children who have experienced maltreatment.