Sergio V. Delgado, MDDr. Delgado is Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychoanalysis at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Delgado is a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Nuevo Leon, and the Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry programs of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. He also completed training as a supervising and training analyst in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently, Dr. Delgado is a adult and child supervising and training analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He currently is the Medical Director of the Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Delgado is the Co-Chair of the Psychotherapy Committee to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the President for the Cincinnati-Dayton Regional Council of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He also serves as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oral Board Examiner for American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Delgado actively teaches in the adult and child psychiatry training programs, and is Director of psychotherapy for the child and adolescent training program. He is a frequent recipient of numerous teaching awards for his helpful and pragmatic teaching and supervising style. Dr. Delgado is frequently sought for supervision and consultation involving difficult psychiatric cases. He is a strong advocate for the integration of individual psychotherapy, family psychotherapy and psychpharmacologic interventions in the treatment of patients. Dr. Delgado has authored multiple journal articles and book chapters about the integration of psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatments in youth, on the assessment and treatment of learning disorders, and on psychological development and intersubjectivity-based interventions in adolescents. Dr. Delgado is the Founder and Director of the relational advanced psychotherapy program (RAPP) in Cincinnati.Jeffrey R. Strawn, MDDr. Strawn received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Kentucky and then completed his residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Following his general psychiatry training, he completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Currently, Dr. Strawn’s is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and is the director of the Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Cincinnati. His clinical work focuses on the psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents and his research program focuses on elucidating the underlying neural circuitry of these conditions, usingfunctional magnetic resonance imaging. Additionally, he is actively involved in the testing of innovative treatments for youth with mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Strawn has published more than 75 papers and book chapters and his research has been acknowledged by numerous organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.He enjoys teaching and is actively involved in the teaching of psychotherapy with adolescents and the treatment of adult and pediatric anxiety disorders to medical students, general psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Ernest V. Pedapati, MDDr. Pedapati is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and maintains a joint appointment in the Division of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts. He completed his Triple Board Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center which is a combined residency in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Pedapati is extensively involved in clinical and research work involving autism and developmental disabilities. He is received the institutional Proctor Scholarship which supports the career development of early physician scientists. He is currently a child psychiatry consultant to the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Pedapati is a member of the Autism Research Group at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and conducts clinical trials and basic psychological research in children with social impairments and repetitive behaviors. In addition, he is a part of an interdisciplinary research team which studies the neurophysiology of neuropsychiatric illness through transcranial magnetic stimulation.
