Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D., is the founding and current Director of the Institute for Prevention Science at the NYU Child Study Center. She is the Corzine Family Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Brotman is also the Director of the Harris Obesity Prevention Effort (HOPE), an obesity prevention initiative at the NYU School of Medicine.
Dr. Brotman's work focuses on the development and prevention of conduct problems. She has been the principal investigator on numerous federally-funded prevention trials and prospective longitudinal studies of the development of conduct problems. She is currently the principal investigator on a ten-year, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study with preschool-aged siblings of juvenile delinquents, and an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) randomized controlled trial of ParentCorps, a family and school intervention for Pre-K students from socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Dr. Brotman earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Developmental Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed an NIMH post-doctoral research fellowship in the Division of Child Psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University.
Dr. Brotman is on the editorial board of the Journal of Aggressive Behavior. Her work has been published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of Child Development, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Early Education and Development, the Journal of Social Development, and the Journal of Family Psychology.
In the News
A Mother's World
Dr. Laurie Miller Brotman was profiled in the May issue of New York Family magazine, in a special section about moms. (May 2007)
Kids in the Kitchen
Laurie Miller Brotman spoke to New York Family (PDF) magazine about the benefit of cooking classes for kids—kids may be more willing to try new foods if they are surrounded by children eating the same things. (April 10, 2007)
