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Anne Marie Albano, PhD, ABPP, is an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University and is the director of the Columbia University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Dr. Albano is the immediate past editor of the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Practice and holds the positions of representative at large of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly AABT), and secretary of the Division of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a former Beck Institute Scholar. Dr. Albano is board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology. Dr. Albano received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in anxiety disorders at the State University of New York at Albany, where she received advanced training in clinical research with Drs. David Barlow and Richard Heimberg. It was during this time that Dr. Albano emerged as a leading cognitive–behavioral scientist with expertise in child and adolescent anxiety disorders. Before joining the faculty at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Albano was the Recanati Family Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University, and she also held positions as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Louisville and assistant director of the Phobia and Anxiety Disorders Clinic of the State University of New York at Albany. Currently, Dr. Albano is a principal investigator of the large multicenter clinical trial, Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, examining the efficacy of cognitive–behavioral and medication treatments for youth ages 7 to 17 with anxiety disorders. She was also a principal investigator on the recently completed Treatments for Adolescents with Depression Study, which was also funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Her research interests center around anxiety and depression in children, adolescents, and young adults, with a particular emphasis on developing and disseminating effective treatments. Among her many publications, Dr. Albano and Dr. Wendy Silverman have coauthored the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM–IV, Child and Parent Versions. In addition, along with Dr. Christopher Kearney, Dr. Albano is the coauthor of Prescriptive Treatment of School Refusal Behavior, Therapist's Guide and Parent Manual. Dr. Albano and Dr. Patricia DiBartolo's manual for the treatment of social anxiety in youth, Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia in Children and Adolescents is in press. |
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