Ronald E. Dahl, M.D.

Staunton Professor, Pediatrics & Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh dahlre@upmc.edu

Dr. Dahl is a pediatrician with research interests in sleep, arousal, and affect regulation and its relevance to developmental pathways to behavioral and emotional health problems in children and adolescents. His work focuses on early adolescence/pubertal maturation as a developmental period with unique opportunities for early intervention in relation to a wide range of behavioral and emotional health problems. He co-directs a large program project of research on child/adolescent depression with 15 years of support from the NIMH, and has received an NIH Independent Scientist Award focused on the interface of sleep, arousal, and affect regulation during adolescent development.

His research is interdisciplinary and seeks to address clinically relevant developmental questions within a framework of cognitive and affective neuroscience. He has served as a core member of several prominent trans-disciplinary research groups including: The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence, and The WT Grant Consortium on the Developmental Psychobiology of Stress. He has published extensively on adolescent development, pediatric sleep disorders, and behavioral/emotional health in children.

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