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Tulane child psychiatry professor Dr. Stacy Drury will receive the 2018 Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in October at the AACAP’s 65th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano.

Dr. Vincent Felitti is shown with Dr. Mimi Graham, who spearheaded the event (center) Dr. Celeste Phillips, Florida's Attorney General, and Kelly Romanoff, Director of the Barancik Foundation, which underwrote expenses for the Think Tank and printing of the booklet, Creating a Trauma Informed State - A Showcase of Florida's Cutting Edge Trauma Initiatives, for each attendee. (Booklet is available for download below.) Many of the more than 560 high-level state leaders who attended Monday’s...

Two years ago, when Jackie Brenner was 16, she was struggling to recover from a difficult knee surgery and to deal with her mother’s fight with breast cancer. Her life was full of stress. She started researching meditation, yoga and nutrition, and she incorporated what she found into her daily routine. Soon, she started spreading her enlightenment to other students. Through Piece of Peace , Ms. Brenner’s nonprofit, she teaches others how to live healthy lives. The effort is most established...