Traumatized Refugee Parents and Infants Considered from Within and Without: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars as Unexpected Legacies of the September 11th Attacks 20 Years Later

American infant, child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and researcher in developmental neuroscience. Trained at Columbia University, he was recruited to the Geneva University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Switzerland in 2008, where he directed the Pediatric Consult-Liaison Service and Parent-Child Research Program until 2017. In 2018, he was appointed Barakett Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine to Direct the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Center. He then decided to return to Switzerland and was recruited to the University Service of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lausanne University Hospital in July, 2019. Since then he has co-directed the Parent-Child Ambulatory Care Program in the Canton of Vaud (PAPILLON) and the Perinatal and Early Childhood Research Program. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Lausanne University Faculty of Biology and Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA. He has published widely and received multiple honors for his clinical and research papers including by the International Psychoanalytical Association, the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.