Professional Staff
David Daskovsky, PhD
Senior Psychologist
 Dr. Daskovsky earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University’s School of Medicine in 1988 . He completed his internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Institute of Psychiatry and also served as Chief Intern there in 1987-8. For the next nine years, Dr. Daskovsky provided individual and group psychotherapy as a staff member of NMH’s Extended Partial Hospitalization Program, which offered intensive, long term treatment for adults with severe mental illnesses including many who had suffered chronic trauma. In 1998, he became Director of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation at Trilogy, Inc. and in 2003 became that agency’s Clinical Director, a position he held until coming to Yellowbrick in 2009. While at Trilogy, Dr. Daskovsky was instrumental in the development of a highly respected practicum training program and has long been committed to teaching graduate students about the treatment of mental illness in community settings. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Psychology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Daskovsky is the father of three emerging adults.
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Erica Kubow, LPC
Education & Career Services
 Erica Kubow, LPC, earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. For the past six years she has worked in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings, and has experience with the adult, young adult and adolescent population. Ms. Kubow has a background in a variety of clinical settings including the Eating Disorder Center at Roger’s Memorial Hospital, where she worked prior to starting graduate school. In her role within Education and Career Services, Ms. Kubow promotes the integration of ambition and competence into the life planning process within Yellowbrick’s treatment process.
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Ronald J. Ganellen, PhD, ABPP
Neuropsychological and Personality Testing Service
Dr. Ganellen received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Oberlin College and then earned a Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospitals, he developed the Neuropsychology Service at Michael Reese Hospital. During his tenure there, Dr. Ganellen provided direct clinical service to patients admitted to medical and psychiatric units, supervised psychology trainees, and pursued research interests in the areas of psychopathology and assessment. As the result of his professional contributions, Dr. Ganellen was invited to be a member of the task force that developed and revised diagnostic criteria included in the DSM-IV, the system used by mental health professionals to identify and classify problems in behavioral, emotional, and social functioning.
In addition to his research activities, Dr. Ganellen is author of the book “Integrating the Rorschach and MMPI-2 in Personality Assessment” and has published research articles and book chapters focused on psychological assessment. He has taught workshops on contemporary issues in assessment across the US and in Europe. Dr. Ganellen is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Society of Personality Assessment and is now serving on their Board as a Member-at-large.
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Eric Johnson, LCSW
Professional Staff
Eric Johnson graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor’s in Social Work in 1992, and worked in various roles in community mental health until returning to school in 2001. He received his Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. For six years, Mr. Johnson served as the Linkage, Outreach, and Triage Services Program Manager at Trilogy, Inc., a non-profit community mental health center.
Since joining Yellowbrick in February 2010, Mr. Johnson brings expertise regarding a humanistic approach to persistent mental illness, community engagement and LGBTQ issues in his work as Senior RRS and Professional Staff at Yellowbrick.
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Yehuda Krohn, PsyD
Staff Psychologist
 Yehuda Krohn, PsyD earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with a minor in Couples and Family Therapy, from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. He carries his fascination with systems into his clinical work with couples, families, groups and the process within organizations.
Dr. Krohn is also a longtime student of ancient Middle-Eastern law and philosophy. Prior to his attending ISPP, he was a research fellow and adult educator with the Chicago Community Kollel. His expertise in the above areas, along with his membership in a faith-based community has helped sensitize him to the spiritual and religious issues that client systems often encounter. Dr. Krohn teaches, writes and presents on psychology, religion and the intersection of the two.
Dr. Krohn and his wife are parents to children who range in age from emerging adult to toddler.
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Mimi Neathery, PsyD
Coordinator of the Assessment Center
 Mimi Neathery, PsyD earned her Doctorate degree in clinical psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she completed her dissertation on the role of attachment in the development and treatment of schizophrenia. For the past several years, she has worked in a variety of settings, both inpatient and outpatient, where she has treated adults, adolescence, and children.
In addition to her clinical experience, Dr. Neathery worked for her family’s manufacturing business where her communication and problem solving skills were utilized to expedite and improve production. As Coordinator of the Assessment Center, Dr. Neathery offers guidance and support as patients and their families explore the unique, specialized treatment options offered at Yellowbrick.
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Betty Wolff, MA, ATR
Creative Arts Coordinator
 Betty Wolff, ATR, earned her Master’s degree in arttherapy from University of Illinois, Chicago. For the past fourteen years she has worked at Rush North Shore Medical Center with the inpatient, outpatient, and medical populations. Ms. Wolff has also worked with Dr. Viner for the last thirteen years at University Behavioral Health where she focused on eating disorders. She is an exhibiting painter and maintains a studio at the North Branch Gallery in Skokie. Ms. Wolff has played an active role on the art committee of the organization of Independent Merchants of Downtown Skokie, where she worked to revitalize the downtown with art. Herphilosophy is to use art as an impetus for change and a mode of connection to the community. It is her hope that the young adult working with multi-media resources will find a stronger sense of self and increased self-esteem.
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Ilene Wynn, RD, LDN
Registered Dietician
Coordinator, Eating Disorder Services
 Ilene Wynn, RD, LDN, earned a Bachelors of Science degree with honors in Nutrition and Medical Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago – Health Sciences Center in 1983. She has worked primarily in outpatient treatment settings including Lake Forest Hospital, Health and Fitness Centers of Lake Forest Hospital and private practice for the past 23 years.
Ms. Wynn’s areas of expertise focus upon preventive Nutrition and Wellness, Disordered Eating, Weight Management and Sports Nutrition. Her philosophy emphasizes provision of nutrition care and intervention to facilitate behavioral and lifestyle changes. She has developed and implemented numerous nutrition education programs and materials for the community and corporate settings. She has extensive experience in nutrition consultation and treatment of individuals with Eating Disorders, having worked with University Behavioral Health since 1994.
Ms. Wynn is the mother of one emerging adult daughter and one teenage daughter.
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Gary Zurawski, LCSW, CADC
Addictions Specialist
 Gary Zurawski, LCSW, CADC, earned his Master’s degree in clinical Social Work from Loyola University Chicago and received his addiction training and degree at Harold Washington College, Chicago. Mr. Zurawski has experience in both the Addiction and Mental Health fields. In addition to working as an Addiction Counselor for Advocate Medical Group, Mr. Zurawski has worked in the Psychiatric Day Hospital and inpatient psychiatric units at Lutheran General Hospital.
In addition to his clinical experience Mr. Zurawski brings real life experience from the private sector where he worked many years in the hospitality industry in a variety of guest centered positions. Mr. Zurawski brings energy and passion to his work that combines proven abstinence based techniques with innovative new strategies specifically targeted for emerging adults with coexisting addiction and dual disorders issues. A key focus of this strategy will be exploring the relation between shame, deception and substance abuse.
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Administration
Cathy Cohen
Senior Administrator
 Ms. Cohen has worked in healthcare for many years in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She brings a wealth of healthcare organizational knowledge to the leadership group at Yellowbrick. Specifically, Ms. Cohen provides expertise in management of electronic medical records, insurance submissions and healthcare business processes. Formerly, Ms. Cohen was Practice Manager at a large Outpatient Surgery center on the west coast of Florida.
Cathy is the mother of an emerging adult son.
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Christina Fejes
Executive Assistant
 Ms. Fejes was in retail management for many years before finding her calling in healthcare three years ago. She brings healthcare billing, precertification and administrative organizational knowledge to the leadership group at Yellowbrick. Specifically, Ms. Fejes provides expertise in insurance submissions and claims payment follow up. Formerly, Ms. Fejes worked at North Urology in Highland Park.
Christina is the mother of 3 small children.
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Board of Advisors
Ian Aitken
CEO, The Menninger Clinic
Ian Aitken serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas. He is responsibility for overall leadership of The Clinic, including operational functions and implementation of the strategic plan. Previously, Mr. Aitken oversaw The Clinic's administrative, operational, marketing and network functions. He has served on The Clinic's management team since joining Menninger in 1996.
Mr. Aitken has worked in behavioral healthcare throughout his career. Prior to joining Menninger, he served as Vice President for health system development at Rock Creek Center, in the southwest Chicago suburb of Lemont, Illinois. He directed development of outpatient programs, physician recruitment and managed care contracting in a seven-state area. He also served as Vice President and CEO of Four Winds-Chicago Hospital at Lemont, a 60-bed proprietary behavioral health hospital with outpatient and off-site programs.
For 16 years, he held a number of administrative and program director positions in the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Disabilities. During this tenure, Mr. Aitken gained expertise in management and development of acute and extended care programs. While working in the public sector, Mr. Aitken also presented at state and national mental health conferences and was published in the Journal of Health and Human Resource Administration.
He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
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David Dranove, PhD
Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management and Strategy, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Dr. Dranove has been a Professor for more than 15 years with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, which maintains one of the country's leading business and healthcare management programs. He is the Walter McNerny Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Management and Strategy and was also the Richard Paget Distinguished Professor of Management and Strategy and Professor of Health Services Management. Dr. Dranove maintains a high public profile as a leading health economist and is influential in the application of economics to solve complex legal and health care policy problems. He assists the firm's clients in all areas of health care policy issues related to economics. Dr. Dranove has advised top officials of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on health care issues and has published several articles on health care reform.
Dr. Dranove received his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Business Administration from Cornell University and his PhD in Business Economics and Policy from Stanford University.
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Prudence Gourguechon, MD
President, American Psychoanalytic Association
Dr. Gourguechon is President of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her previous positions with that organization include Secretary, Editor of the quarterly magazine The American Psychoanalyst, and Chair of a national fellowship program. Her leadership goals within psychoanalysis are numerous. They include establishing a comprehensive structure to provide psychoanalytic input to educational systems from pre-kindergarten to professional levels, and increasing the voice of psychoanalysis within the broader community to enhance the understanding of urgent social and cultural issues. In addition, she focuses on the core values of psychoanalysis (individualization of treatment, the sanctity of doctor/patient confidentiality and the importance of the therapeutic relationship) to try to influence the modern healthcare environment.
Dr. Gourguechon has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Northfield and Chicago, which includes providing psychoanalytic consultation to law firms and corporations.
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Craig Johnson, PhD
Director, Eating Disorders Program, The Laureate Hospital
Dr. Johnson has been a leader in the field of Eating Disorders for over 27 years. He is Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Laureate Psychiatric Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and formerly held faculty appointments at Yale University, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Medical Schools. He was the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and a Founding Member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorders Research Society. He is also Past President of the National Eating Disorders Association. Dr. Johnson has authored three books and over 70 scientific articles, and has received several distinguished contribution awards.
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Joan Lebow, Esq.
Principal, Lebow, Malecki and Tasch, LLC
Joan Lebow is a Manager and Co-founder of Lebow, Malecki & Tasch, LLC. She concentrates on transactions in clinical services delivery, information technology transfer and licensing, corporate organization, intellectual property development and protection, reimbursement, insurance including ERISA and managed care and regulatory compliance. Her practice focuses on entrepreneurial and clinical businesses.
Previously, Ms. Lebow served as General Counsel of ibex Healthdata Systems, Inc., which provides Web-based software applications to hospitals and physicians. As General Counsel, Ms. Lebow managed and provided all legal services, including development and protection of intellectual property assets, software licensing and sublicensing, and corporate transactions and employment. She served as Corporate Secretary and was a member of the Senior Executive Team.
Ms. Lebow started the Legal Department of Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, and was its General Counsel for 13 years. During her tenure, she was responsible for regulatory compliance, and corporate transactions and managed all trials and appeals. She handled all insurance, including commercial and general liability, malpractice liability and self-insurance. Ms. Lebow provided all regulatory and transactional support of insurance subsidiaries. She also managed the regulatory compliance of the Medical Center, with emphasis in the areas of public and private reimbursement and clinical operations.
Prior to her work at Illinois Masonic, Ms. Lebow served as Assistant General Counsel of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she engaged in a broad healthcare and corporate practice. She represented Northwestern in state and federal administrative hearings, and handled ERISA and employee benefit issues, medical staff and licensed professional regulatory affairs. As an associate with the firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook, she handled direct litigation and appeals, insurance coverage disputes and general corporate matters.
Ms. Lebow is an Adjunct Professor of Health Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago-Kent College of Law, and is a Scholar affiliated with the Institute of Science, Law and Technology, a joint program between IIT and Chicago-Kent. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Illinois Association of Health Care Attorneys, the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, and is a past President, Officer and Board Member of the Chicago Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association. She serves on the Board of the Little City Foundation, advises the Board of Directors of The Family Institute and actively raises funds for the Bottomless Closet and Literature for All of Us. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Senior Business Women's Forum.
Ms. Lebow received her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Philosophy from Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, in 1975, and received her JD from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, in 1978.
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Jeffrey Nemetz
Principal, HBG Health, Inc.
Jeffrey Nemetz is a Principal of HBG and a lead Brand Strategist for its global client base. He is responsible for creating the highly acclaimed “inside” brand process, a six-step proprietary program for brand development, deployment and diagnosis. Mr. Nemetz has facilitated strategic branding sessions for start-up and established organizations on both the medical and consumer sides of healthcare. He is recognized nationally in branding and has been published and invited to lecture on the value of brands to leading professionals in the healthcare sector. In addition to his consulting career, Mr. Nemetz has had operational experience. Mr. Nemetz was President of Shane Oral Health Pharmaceuticals, makers of Shane Toothpaste, the only toothpaste in the world with a patented aloe vera formula.
Prior to his work with Shane, Mr. Nemetz was President/CEO of MedPro Software, a medical interactive multi-media company. MedPro was one of the first companies in the country to utilize this media for product promotion, physician education and sales training in the healthcare industry. Under his guidance, MedPro was awarded the opportunity to develop the first medical encyclopedia in CD-ROM format for World Book International. Mr. Nemetz also had product brand management experience working with two of Chicago’s heritage brands, McDonald’s, where he helped launch breakfast on a national scale, and Sunbeam.
Mr. Nemetz is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received his post-graduate degrees as a James Webb Young Fellow. Mr. Nemetz holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Master’s of Science degree in Communications and a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications.
He is an active member of several professional healthcare associations and devotes significant time to multiple boards and charitable foundations, contributing his strategic skills and leadership experience.
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William M. Pinsof, PhD, LMFT, ABPP
President and Professor, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
William Pinsof is President of The Family Institute, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University and the Director of the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies at Northwestern. He currently teaches in the Northwestern University Master of Science in Marital and Family Therapy Program and also teaches both undergraduate and post-doctoral courses for Northwestern University students.
His academic and research work has focused on evaluating the outcome of marital and family therapy, understanding the process of marital and family therapy, and the integration of different therapeutic approaches for maximal cost effectiveness.
His work on psychotherapy integration culminated in the publication of Integrative Problem Centered Therapy: A Synthesis of Family, Individual and Biological Therapies by Basic Books. He has also edited four books: Family Psychology: The Art of the Science, that he co-edited with Jay Lebow, published by Oxford University Press; a special issue of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy that he co-edited with Lyman C. Wynne, dedicated to reviewing all of the controlled research on the outcomes of couple and family therapy; a special issue of Family Process entitled, "Marriage in the 20th Century in Western Civilization: Trends, Research, Therapy, and Perspectives;” and the classic work he co-edited with Leslie Greenberg, The Psychotherapeutic Process: A Research Handbook.
Additionally, Dr. Pinsof is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Pinsof received the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in 1996, the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice Award from the American Family Therapy Academy in 2001, and the 2001 Family Psychologist of the Year from the American Psychological Association Division 43 - Family Psychology.
Dr. Pinsof received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist as well as an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He treats individuals, couples and families.
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Allan Schore, PhD
Editor, Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
Dr. Schore is an internationally recognized pioneer and scholar in the neuroscience of attachment and affect self-regulation. He is on the clinical faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. He is also the Editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Dr. Schore’s groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, integrates a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and the biological disciplines in order to construct an over-arching model of social and emotional development. Since then he has expanded his regulation theory in more than two dozen articles and essays covering multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment and trauma.
His book, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) contains writings on developmental effective neuroscience and developmental neuropsychiatry. Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology #2) contains chapters on neuropsychoanalysis and developmentally-oriented psychotherapy. The Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology also publishes the Allan N. Schore Set and the Reader's Guide to Affect Regulation and Neurobiology.
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Chris E. Stout, PsyD, MBA
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Founder, Center for Global Initiatives
Dr. Stout, a licensed clinical psychologist, is the former Chief Operating Officer. He is also a Clinical Full Professor at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, holds an academic appointment in the Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School and was a Visiting Professor at Rush University. Dr. Stout is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He is also a Fellow in the University of Illinois School of Public Health. Dr. Stout has published 30 books/manuals, including the popular Evidence-Based Practice (Wiley & Sons, 2005) and the College Counseling Treatment Planner (Wiley & Sons). His works have been translated into 7 languages. He was noted as being "one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature" in a study by Hartwick College. He was awarded the APA's International Humanitarian Award (2004) and the 2006 Illinois Psychological Association's Humanitarian Award.
Dr. Stout served as a NGO Special Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Commerce to the Board of Examiners for the Baldrige National Quality Award and served on Mrs. Gore's White House Conference on Mental Health. He also is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives. He holds the distinction of being one of only 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow 2000 and he was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos.
He is father to an adolescent son and a pre-teenage daughter.
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Michael Strober, PhD, ABPP
Franklin Mint Chair, Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Dr. Michael Strober is the Franklin Mint Professor of Eating Disorders and Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at UCLA’s Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neurospychiatric Hospital.
Dr. Strober joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in 1975, and has served as Director of the Eating Disorders without interruption for the past 30 years. In addition to his extensive clinical expertise in the area of consultation and treatment, he has authored nearly 200 scientific articles and book chapters, and his accomplishments in research, service and teaching have been recognized by the National Eating Disorders Association (2005 Award for Excellence in Teaching), and the Academy for Eating Disorders (2005 Award for Excellence in Teaching and Education). His research activities have been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for over 15 years, and focus on the role of personality, family and genetic influences in anorexia and bulimia nervosa, and predictors of long-term recovery. Today, the eating disorders program is recognized internationally as a center of excellence for the care it provides to children and adults.
Dr. Strober is a founding member and past President of the Eating Disorders Research Society, a Founding Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, has served as advisor and consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health on research priorities in eating disorders, and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
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Jennifer L. Tanner, PhD
Visiting Assistant Research Professor Institute For Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research Rutgers University
Dr. Tanner is currently a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Prior to her fellowship years, she was Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Simmons College in Boston. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, books and handbooks and presented in professional forums. Dr. Tanner’s research program takes a multidisciplinary approach to developing theory of normal, abnormal and optimal development from adolescence to young adulthood, roughly ages 12 to 35. Complementing theory design, her empirical work takes advantage of cutting-edge methodologies to examine ways in which different pathways taken from adolescence through emerging and young adulthood are associated with diverse experiences and outcomes (e.g., mental health, health, functioning). She is dedicated to translating her work and the work of others to inform programs, policies and services that seek to enhance and optimize development and adjustment during the transition to adulthood.
Dr. Tanner balances her research career with teaching, consulting, advising and writing for a wide-variety of audiences including the book Emerging Adults in the 21st Century, which she co-authored with Jeffery Arnett, PhD. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses since 1998 in departments of Psychology at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts; Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University; Child Development at Tufts University: and Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Established with the First Conference on Emerging Adulthood in 2003, Dr. Tanner is Co-Chair of the Society for Research on Emerging Adulthood dedicated to the goal of connecting an interdisciplinary, international network of scholars interested in and dedicated to the study of individuals between ages 18 and 29. She serves on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Adolescent Research and The Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
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Dr. Jesse Viner created Yellowbrick in recognition of the specialized needs of emerging adults and their families, and the necessity for a treatment system that addressed the unique challenges of the transition into adulthood. A recognized expert in the treatment of eating disorders, difficulties resulting from trauma and abuse, and bipolar disorder, Dr. Viner has three decades of experience applying the knowledge of psychiatry and psychoanalysis to the challenge of creating meaningful and pragmatically effective treatment programs.
Dr. Monroe-Cook earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University in 1979, completing specialized training in family therapy through the Family Life Clinic there. He has extensive clinical and administrative experience in the treatment of substance abuse and dual diagnosis disorders, including functioning as Chief of Family Services for the substance abuse program at Martha Washington Hospital and as the Director of Substance Abuse Services at Four Winds Chicago. Throughout his career, he has maintained a commitment to the development and implementation of integrative models of treatment for individuals and families with concerns regarding addictive behaviors. For the past nine years, Dr. Monroe-Cook has maintained a private practice with an emphasis
on the treatment of couples.
Robbie Bogard, LCSW, earned her Master's degree in clinical social work from the University of Chicago in 1992. She has worked in inpatient, partial hospital, and outpatient treatment settings for more than 15 years, and has experience with individual and family therapy within private practice since 1994. She has extensive expertise working with trauma survivors, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and other group therapies. During the war in Bosnia Ms. Bogard trained medical and mental health care providers and founded SESTRA International, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to providing education and resources to NGOs and refugees. She lectured on the topic of trauma and recovery at The University of Chicago and Amnesty International among other national and international institutions. Prior to Yellowbrick, Ms. Bogard worked at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. There she was responsible for program development and direct service in an innovative program aimed at helping people with a range of psychiatric symptoms survive and thrive in the community. She deeply believes in the importance of including holistic, innovative therapies in the treatment process and taught yoga and knitting in Boston.
Dr. Laura Viner is a Clinical Psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School. For over 25 years, Dr. Viner has done clinical research, teaching of Psychology and Psychiatry students, and assessment and clinical treatment of individuals, families and groups with adults, adolescents, and children. She has published over 50 scholarly articles in scientific journals and books, including her recent popular psychology book on psychoneuroimmunology, The Joy Formula for Health and Beauty. Dr. Viner also gives scientific presentations to professional audiences around the country. 
Pam Tansey, RN, LCSW, earned a Master's degree in clinical social work from Loyola University and a Nursing degree from Evanston Hospital School of Nursing. She has extensive experience spanning over 30 years in a variety of clinical settings including Evanston Hospital Department of Psychiatry inpatient treatment, Northwestern Memorial Partial Hospitalization Program, community-based children and family services at Children's Aid society, and over 10 years in a private psychotherapy practice working with adults, young adults and adolescents. Ms. Tansey has been honored as the 2008 Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, Northern Illinois District. 
David Hamilton, MD joins Yellowbrick following receipt of his medical degree at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and subsequent residency training at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. He pursued further specialty training at the University of Virginia by completing a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship during which time he also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Dr. Hamilton is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy degree from the University of Iowa prior to his entering medical school. 
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