This event was made possible by a grant by Congressman Jamie Raskin and administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

About the speaker

Tami Benton, MD is the Frederick Allen Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of Psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and Chief of the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She directs the Child and Adolescent Mood Program and the Youth Suicide Prevention Center at CHOP, a multidisciplinary clinical and research program focused on depression and suicide among children and adolescents, with an emphasis upon minority youth. She was recently awarded the Blanche Ittelson Award for Child Psychiatry Research in 2023 by the American Psychiatric Association(APA), the Shelly Leaphart-Williams Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Humanitarian Award by the Society of Biological Psychiatry, The McGavin award for advocacy by the American Psychiatric Association, The Virginia Q Anthony Women’s leadership award and the Jeanne Spurlock Award for Leadership in Diversity and Culture by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has served on the APA’s Council for Research and the NIMH Advisory Council and previously as AACAP’s Program Committee Co-chair. She is the President of The American Association of Directors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the President Elect of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2023). She receives funding for research from the NIH, PCORI and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Benton’s career has been dedicated to developing leadership for a diverse child psychiatry workforce. Her mission is to prepare the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric and mental health care and create partnerships between communities and academic centers that will be critical for eliminating disparities in health care.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Tami Benton, MD, reports that she no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC , Heather Billings, RN, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.