Bruce D. Perry

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name = Bruce D. Perry


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field = Neuroscience, Mental health, Trauma
work_institution = Baylor College of Medicine
alma_mater = Northwestern University, Medical School

Stanford University
Amherst College
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Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. is a clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences, and an internationally-recognized authority on children in crisis. From 1993-2001, he was the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital. He is currently Senior Fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy, which is a leading center of research and education on child maltreatment. He also serves as Senior Consultant to the Alberta Ministry of Children's Services in Canada.

Consultant, child trauma

Perry has served as a consultant and expert witness on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, including the Columbine High School massacre, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Waco siege and the YFZ Ranch custody cases. His clinical research and practice focuses on examining the long-term effects of trauma in children, adolescents and adults and has been instrumental in describing how traumatic events in childhood change the biology of the brain. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of a variety of professional awards.

He is also a founding national advisory board member of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children [ [http://www.protect.org/advisoryBoard.html Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.] , "National Association to Protect Children", retrieved 11/06/2007.] , and sits on the editorial review board of the "Cultic Studies Review" [ [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_icsa/icsa_brd_csr.htm Editorial Board] , "Cultic Studies Review", International Cultic Studies Association, 2006.] .

Personal

On October 12, 1974, when he was a student at Stanford University, Arlis Perry, then 19 year old wife of Bruce was brutally murdered in the chapel of Stanford campus church. This crime remains an unsolved mystery to this date. [ [http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/COURTSandCASES/DNA/ContraCostaTimes_com%20%2010-10-2004%20%20Detective%20searches%20for%201974%20Stanford%20church%20killer.html "Detective searches for 1974 Stanford church killer"] ]

Education

* University of Chicago, fellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* Yale University School of Medicine, residency, psychiatry
* Northwestern University, M.D., Ph.D.
* Amherst College (B.A. 1977)
* Stanford University

Publications

Books

* "", with Maia Szalavitz, 2007, ISBN 0465056520 [http://www.childtrauma.org/CTAMATERIALS/boy_raised_as_a_dog.asp]

Articles

External links

* [http://home.earthlink.net/~hopefull/TC_brucedperry.htm Bruce D. Perry articles]
* [http://www.ChildTrauma.org Child Trauma Academy]
* [http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/katrina-tragedy.html "The Real Crisis of Katrina"] by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, September, 2005
* [http://www.childtrauma.org/CTAMATERIALS/neuros~1.asp "Altered Brain Development Following Global Neglect in Early Childhood"] by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.

DVD Seminar

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