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Author Biographies 495Patricia Gorman Barry, Ph.D., is founding director of the Positive Life Choices®nonprofit agency in Denver, Colorado, and developer of the BrainWise program.Since 1995, the agency has provided BrainWise materials and training to improvethe thinking skills of children, teens, and adults. BrainWise is taught by more than2,000 teachers, social workers, counselors, visiting nurses, and other advocatesthroughout the world, and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.Megan R. Gunnar, Ph.D., is a Distinguished McKnight Professor of Child Developmentat the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. Shehas documented the powerful role of close relationships in regulating stress biologyin young children. She directs an NIH-sponsored research network on earlyexperience, stress, and prevention science and is a member of both the Experience-Based Brain Development program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Researchand the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.Scott Hemby, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology atWake Forest University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the molecularneuropathology of schizophrenia and drug addiction.Meghan Howe, M. SW., is the Laboratory Manager of the Pediatric Bipolar DisordersProgram at Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of ChildPsychiatry. Her research focuses on the development of therapeutic, educational,and advocacy programs for child and adolescent populations, with particular attentionto bipolar disorder.Hallam Hurt, M.D., is a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphiaand the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has a long-standing interestin the outcomes of inner-city children. This interest stems, in part, from herinvestigations regarding effects of gestational substance exposure and poverty onchild outcome. She currently is exploring precursors of substance use in 10- to12-year-old youths.Ann S. Masten, Ph.D., is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at theInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, serving as departmentchair 1999–2005. Masten is a licensed psychologist and Director of the ProjectCompetence studies of risk and resilience in development. She is currently Presidentof Division 7 (Developmental) of the American Psychological Associationand serves on the Governing Council of the Society for Research in ChildDevelopment.Erin McClure, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University.Previously, she served as a Research Fellow in the Emotional Development