Faculty and Staff in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Andrew Russell

Dr. Langley is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is a clinician and researcher who specializes in cognitive behavioral treatment for children and adolescents with PTSD, anxiety, and related disorders. Dr. Langley’s work seeks to increase school-based access to evidence-based interventions for underserved populations of children.

David Miklowitz, Ph.D.

Erika Nurmi

Dr. Nurmi is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the UCLA Pediatric OCD Intensive Outpatient Program, faculty in the Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Clinic, and director of a molecular and computational genetics laboratory in the Semel Institute UCLA Semel Institute. Dr. Nurmi's research focuses on the genetic basis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders, employing next generation molecular and computational approaches.

Jeffrey J. Wood, Ph.D.

John Piacentini, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Piacentini is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program at the UCLA Semel Institute. His research, teaching and clinical work focus on the development, evaluation, and implementation of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and other effective treatments, including medication, for children with OCD, other anxiety disorders, tic disorders and trichotillomania.

R. Lindsey Bergman, Ph.D.

Dr. Bergman is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Pediatric OCD Intensive Outpatient Program at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA. Dr. Bergman is a researcher and clinician who specializes in cognitive behavioral treatment for children and adolescents with OCD, selective mutism, and related disorders.

Robert Suddath, M.D.

Susanna Chang, Ph.D.

Dr. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute. Her research interests include investigations into the neurocognitive correlates of treatment response in childhood tic, OCD and related conditions, as well as how cognitive training paradigms like attention bias modification may help to improve disorders such as OCD and anxiety.

Tanya Paparella, Ph.D.

Dr. Tanya Paparella is a specialist in the field of autism with more than 20 years of intervention and research with children on the autism spectrum. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), a licensed clinical psychologist, and since 2001 Director of UCLA’s Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program (ECPHP) which is an internationally recognized treatment program for young children with autism.