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Table 16 – Dr. Patrick Tolan
Fri, March 22, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Hilton Baltimore, Floor: Level 2, Key 5Integrative Statement
Biography:
Patrick H. Tolan is Charles S. Robb Professor at the University of Virginia in the Curry School of Education and Human Development and in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine. From 2009-2017 he was the founding director of Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, a trans-disciplinary center focusing on advancing scientific knowledge, practices, and policies related to positive youth development. Prior to joining the UVA faculty, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the University of Illinois and for ten years was Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, a multidisciplinary center focused on child mental health and mental illness.
Over the past 35 years he has organized and lead multiple developmental longitudinal and randomized control studies focused on prevention of problem-behavior and academic and social failure and promoting resilience and effective functioning among youth in high risk communities and/or at critical developmental transitions. He has been a regular contributor to the literature on risk patterns, prevention efficacy, community and family influences related to adolescent development and related methodological issues with contributions to basic science, interventions, applications, and policy. Recently he has focused on positive youth development and advancing the sophistication and utility of that perspective for adolescent development. His latest book is Gene-Environment Transactions in Developmental Psychopathology: The Role in Intervention Research, a volume in the Brain Research Foundation Symposium Series he edits. (Springer, 2017. Among the recognitions for his contributions to developmental science are the 2016 Nicholas Hobbs Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2018 Presidential (Lifetime Achievement) Award from the Society for Prevention Research.