Joan Kaufman, PhD
Joan Kaufman, PhD, Director of Research, Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Kaufman received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Yale University where she served on faculty in the Department of Psychiatry from 1998-2015. In 2015 she was recruited to Baltimore to serve as Director of
Research at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in the division of Mental Health
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Kaufman’s research is in the area of child abuse and neglect, spans from neurobiology to social policy, and uses tools from psychology, genetics, and neuroscience to understand resilience and mechanisms of disease
risk associated with early adversity. She has received consistent funding from the National Institute of Health for her research, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed professional articles and book chapters. She also
authored the book Broken Three Times: A Story of Child Abuse in America (Oxford University Press; which is a narrative non-fiction story that follows one family through the child welfare system, with each chapter providing
launching points for discussing state-of-the-art policy, practice, and scientific updates. Dr. Kaufman is also first author on paper-and-pencil KSADS child psychiatric diagnostic interview which has been translated into
more than 30 languages, and served as co-Principal Investigator on the grants funded to update the KSADS to a web-based computer-administered format. As one of the principal developers of the KSADS, Dr. Kaufman has served
as a consultant on numerous federally-funded and industry-sponsored child psychiatric clinical trials.