Angela Paradis, Sc.D.
Project Director
SLS@simmons.edu
Angela has been with the SLS for over 12 years, and became Project Director in July, 2010. She is also a Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she earned her doctorate in Epidemiology. At SLS, Angela has collaborated in writing multiple successfully funded federal and foundation grants; conducted data analysis; co-authored many publications for the project; and contributed to several waves of data collection. Angela is interested in the role of early life experiences (particularly within the family) play in both the onset and course of mental and behavioral problems across the life course. Much of her recent work has focused on furthering what is known about the antecedents of persistent conduct problems.
Helen Reinherz, Sc.D.
Consultant
helen.reinherz@simmons.edu
Since her practice days in a family counseling agency and a psychiatric clinic for children and families, Dr. Helen Reinherz's interests have been prevention and treatment of mental health problems. She has been Director/Principal Investigator of the Simmons Longitudinal Study from 1976 to 2010. With over 40 years of experience as a social worker, teacher and researcher and as an author of over 60 articles she will continue as consultant as the project moves forward. Dr. Reinherz is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Social Work and Research. In addition to her research, Dr. Reinherz is a Professor Emerita at Simmons College School of Social Work and a Harvard School of Public Health alumna. She is also a NASW Social Work Pioneer.
Rose M. Giaconia, Ph.D.
Consultant
SLS@simmons.edu
Rose was a senior member of the SLS research team for more than 20 years, and she will continue to consult with Drs. Reinherz and Paradis as needed. Rose earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Stanford University. Prior to joining SLS in 1990, she conducted dozens of educational program evaluations and data analysis projects in both California and Massachusetts. At SLS, Rose participated in study design and data collection, conducted statistical analyses, and prepared journal articles. Her areas of interest are tracing the long-term effects of traumas, determining the onset and course of behavioral and emotional problems from childhood to adulthood, and identifying childhood factors that promote healthy functioning in those most at-risk for later behavioral and emotional problems.
William Beardslee, M.D.
Consultant
William Beardslee is Director of the Baer Prevention Initiatives, Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital in Boston, and Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a Senior Scientist at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He has received the Blanche F. Ittleson award of the American Psychiatric Association for outstanding published research contributing to the mental health of children, has been a Faculty Scholar of the William T. Grant foundation, and in 1999, received the Irving Philips Award for Prevention and the Catcher in the Rye Award for Advocacy for Children from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 2003, he received the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention of Mental Disorder in Children from the American Psychiatric Association. In 2005, he received the Human Rights Award from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Dr. Beardslee serves on the Carter Center Task Force on Mental Health and the Board of Mental Health America. He is the author of over 175 articles and chapters and two books: The Way Out Must Lead In: Life Histories in the Civil Rights Movement, a story of what enables civil rights workers to endure; and Out of the Darkened Room: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family When a Parent is Depressed, a book about how parents and caregivers can help families overcome depression.
Garrett Fitzmaurice, Sc.D.
Consultant
Garrett Fitzmaurice is a Professor of Psychiatry (Biostatistics) at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics at McLean Hospital; he is also a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1993. His research interests include methods for analyzing discrete longitudinal data, models for mixed discrete and continuous outcomes, general missing data problems, methods for detecting and adjusting for overdispersion, and statistical problems in psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Fitzmaurice is an expert in statistical design and analysis and has been consulting with the project for over ten years. He has co-authored multiple project publications including: Paradis, A.D., Reinherz, H.Z., Giaconia, R.M., Beardslee, W.R., Ward, K.E., Fitzmaurice, G.M. (2009). Long-term impact of family arguments and physical violence on adult functioning at age 30 years: findings from the Simmons Longitudinal Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 48:3, 291-299.
