Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, is the founding president and medical director of the Child Mind Institute, the leading independent nonprofit in children’s mental health. One of the nation’s top child and adolescent psychiatrists, Dr. Koplewicz was the founding director of the NYU Child Study Center from 1997 to 2009 and director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research from 2006 to 2011.

Dr. Koplewicz served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology for 25 years, and he is the author of several books, including Scaffold Parenting: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety (Harmony Books, 2021).

The Child Mind Institute, which Dr. Koplewicz founded in 2009, has reached nearly 70,000 children through clinical care, research evaluations, and school-based programs, and they have delivered mental health resources to over 2.3 million students. Researchers in over 3,350 cities worldwide have published articles using the organization’s open science data sets, and their award-winning website, childmind.org, has brought accessible information to more than 128 million parents, teachers, and mental health professionals worldwide. In 2023, they inaugurated the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute.

Dr. Koplewicz’s many awards and honors include the 2002 Catcher in the Rye Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and WebMD’s 2014 Health Heroes Activist Award. In 2020, he received the Dominick P. Purpura Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been repeatedly recognized in America’s Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America, and New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors.”

We Have Dyslexia—and We Are Not Dumb

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We Have Dyslexia—and We Are Not Dumb