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SPECIAL PRESENTER: Dr. Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, MD, MBBS
PRESENTER BIO: Dr. Raghavan conducts mental health services research on the needs of vulnerable children, with a specific interest in those in the child welfare system. He is the former chair of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Mental Health Services Research review committee, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Child Maltreatment and Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Previously, he served on the faculties of Washington University in St. Louis, and Rutgers University. In early 2015, he served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working primarily on the Obama Administration’s psychotropic medication use and childhood trauma initiatives. Dr. Raghavan received his Bachelors in Medicine and Surgery (MB, BS) degree from Stanley Medical College, Madras, India; an MD in psychiatry from Manipal University, Manipal, India; and trained as a pediatric pain fellow at the Mattel Children’s Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine. He earned his PhD in health policy and management from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.