BOARD OF ADVISORS

 

The Board of Advisors is comprised of experts in the fields of neuroscience, communication, child psychiatry, pediatrics, education, information, science, and public health who are passionate about advancing objective, high-level, evidence-based, multi-disciplinary research on the impact of digital media on children and adolescents.  Our advisors serve 2 year terms and work with IDMCD staff to advance the organization’s goals, provide advice on and evaluation of the Institute’s work, strategy, structure and membership, peer review grant proposals to fund, and oversee working groups of experts and researchers on specific areas of interest.

 

 

Dr. Amy Jordan,

Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Dr. Dimitri Christakis 

Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior & Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute

 

 

Dr. Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Northwestern University

 

 

Dr. Elizabeth Englander

Director, Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center,.Bridgewater State University

 

 

Dr. Melina Uncapher

Cofounder/CEO Institute for Applied Neuroscience, Stanford University

 

 

Dr. Sam Aronson

Former Director, Brookhaven National Laboratories

 

 

Dr. Tracy Day

World Science Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Dr. Nancy Goroff

Associate Provost, Stony Brook University 

 

 

Dr. David Meyer, University of Michigan 

Director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory, University of Michigan

 

 

Dr. Carrie James, University of Michigan 

Research Director, Principal Investigator, Project Zero; Harvard Graduate School of Education