Leaders in the Field

David Willis – Early Relational Health: Building the Foundations for Lifelong Health and Wellbeing

Jason Fogler – A Word or Two on Motivational Enhancement and Parent/Patient Engagement for Neurodivergent Youth and their Caregivers

Claudia Gold – Playing in the Uncertainty: Making Every Contact with Babies and Caregivers Count

Aditi Subramaniam – Embodied ways of ‘being with’– Expressive arts as a portal in infant and early childhood mental health

Ndidiamaka Amutah–Onukagha – Breaking Barriers: Combating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health

Elaine C. Meyer – Everyday Clinical Ethics in the Care of Infants and Their Families

Claudia Passos Ferreira – The Development of Consciousness in Infants

Kerim Munir – From Earthquakes to Early Minds: Lessons in Global Mental Health, Development, and Disabilities

Nicki Dawson – In Search of Contextually-Relevant Infant Mental Health Practice: A journey from practice back to theory

Karen E. Adolph – How Behavior Develops

Neil W. Boris – Reflections on My Journey with the Circle of Security

Lise Johnson, MD – The Newborn Behavioral Observations System: Where did it come from, where is it now, and what does the future hold? 

Dr. Nim Tottenham – Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment & the Caregiver

Dr. Barbara Stroud – Reimagining the Field of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Dr. Serena Wieder – Did We Need Another Model or Theory of Development and Intervention? DIR®: The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship based Model©

Dr. Kari Slinning  – The First 1000 Days in Nordic Countries

Stephen W. Porges, PhD – Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety

Dr. Jane Bernstein – A View from the Future

Cyndie Hatcher, MD – Small Moments, Big Impact: A Relational Health Tool

Matthew Melmed, JD – Using Your Leadership to be a Bigger Voice for Little Ones

Martha G. Welch – How infants and children depend upon and benefit from autonomic emotional connection (AEC) with their mothers, and why

Nucha Isarowong and Carmen Rosa Noroña – Centering Critical Consciousness, Critical Self-Reflection, Racial Equity and Inclusion in Reflective Supervision/Consultation

Professors Kaija Puura and Antoine Guedeney – From Social Withdrawal Behavior to Shared Pleasure

Professor Louise Newman, AM – Thinking about relational trauma in infancy

Professor Jane Barlow – Conceptual and empirical advances in our understanding about the relationship with the unborn baby, and their implications for practice

Professors Charles Super and Sara Harkness – How Cultures Care for Young Children, and Why It Matters

Dr. Patricia Marks Greenfield – Infant Care and Development: Historical change and cross-cultural value conflict in pathways to attachment and family relationships

Dr. Dominique Charlot-Swilley – Revitalizing How We Serve: Sitting at the Feet of the Storyteller 

Paula D. Zeanah and Charles H. Zeanah – Neglect in Young Children: Efects on Infants, Caregivers and Providers

Jay Belsky, Emeritus Professor – Beyond Mental Health: Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective

Linda Gilkerson, PhD, LSW – Journey Toward Connection and Understanding: Story of Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN)

L. Alan Sroufe, PhD – The Legacy of Early Experience

Constance Keefer, MD – Narrative Analysis of Parent-Pediatrician Discourse in Well-Child Visits

Eurnestine Brown, PhD – Black Babies are Beautiful: Let’s talk about Skin Color

Hisako Watanabe, MD, PhD – Reviving ‘Amae’ and Intuitive Parenting in the Therapeutic Relationship：Being Available to the Baby-Parent Relational Capacity

Professor Helen Milroy – Born Into Stories

William J. Barbaresi, MD – From Research to Clinical Care: 25 Years of ADHD Research and the Development of a New Practice Guideline​

Tiffany Field, PhD – Massage Therapy for Infants and Children

Presented by Cynthia García Coll, PhD – Children’s Development In Contexts: Theoretical shortcomings and advances

Prof. Jonathan Delafield-Butt – Infant Intentions as the Origin of Shared Meaning

Judy Palfrey – Child Health in America – Why the US needs child health leadership NOW!

Hiram Fitzgerald – Origins of Aggression in Infancy and Early Childhood: Fathers and Sons

Jayne Singer, PhD, IECMH-E® – Integrity and Integration in Infant Mental Health: Lessons Learned through Newborn Behavioral Observations

Barry M. Lester – Early Identification of the Infant at Risk

Nathan Fox – Infants have their own personalities: The Influence of Temperament Across Child Development

William (Bill) Fifer, PhD – Interrogating the Sleeping Fetal and Infant Brain

Arietta Slade, PhD – The Relational Foundations of Reflective Practice and Reflective Parenting

Vasudevi Reddy – Openness in Infancy

Deborah Weatherston, PhD – The heART of Reflective Supervision

Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD – Internalizing Reality

Brenda Jones-Harden – Infants in the Child Welfare System

Heidelise Als – Listening to the Voice of the Newborn

Joshua Sparrow, Barbara Rogoff, & Gilda Morelli – Infant relationships, synchrony, and culture

Dieter Wolke – Infant Regulatory Problems and Developmental Trajectories

Colwyn Boyd Trevarthen – Human Life and Learning Before Language

Dr. Charles Nelson – Sensitive Periods in Development

Dr. Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern – Psychological Processes During the Sensitive Time of Birth

Ed Tronick – Brazelton’s Newborn Assessment

Joy Osofsky – Addressing Prenatal Risk

Campbell Paul – The Baby Wished for More…