Charles Henry Zeanah Jr. MD

Summary

• Dr. Charles Zeanah holds the Mary Peters Polchow Chair in Psychiatry and is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He is A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Throughout his career, he has studied the effects of adverse early experiences on children’s development, including trauma, abuse and neglect. His clinical work has included 35+ years of experience treating children who have experienced maltreatment, especially young children. He also has studied interventions designed to enhance recovery following exposure to adverse experience and published widely on these topics. He is Editor of 4 editions of the Handbook of Infant Mental Health, co-author of Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development and the Struggle for Recovery, and Chaired the Task Force that published the Diagnostic Classification of Mental and Developmental Disorders Zero to Five.