Elizabeth McCauley, PHD, ABPP is a Professor at the University of Washington (UW) and Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UW/Seattle Children’s Hospital.  Her research program focuses on the development, prevention and intervention of depression and suicidality in youth. She has developed and/or tested prevention and intervention strategies to address depression in clinical, primary care and school settings. . She was a Co-Investigator, clinical trainer and supervisor, on the Reaching Out to Adolescents in Distress Study (ROADS; Richardson et al., 2014) of the collaborative care treatment model for management of depression among adolescents in primary care. She has completed two NIMH funded clinical trials, a pilot study of Behavioral Activation as an alternative treatment for depression in adolescence as well as a multisite treatment study (Collaborative Adolescent Research on Emotions and Suicide; CARES) for suicidal youth. Dr. McCauley has also led a number of school-based clinical trials including a NIMH funded depression prevention trial and a just completed IES funded multisite project to test a brief intervention model designed for the school setting.  Dr. McCauley is currently serving as a Deputy Editor, focused on clinical trials, for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescence Psychiatry. Throughout Dr. McCauley’s career, she has been clinically based at Seattle Children’s Hospital and in that context has worked with youth and families dealing with mental health problems as well as those coping with acute and chronic medical conditions.  Elizabeth McCauley, PHD, ABPP is a Professor at the University of Washington (UW) and Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UW/Seattle Children’s Hospital.  Her research program focuses on the development, prevention and intervention of depression and suicidality in youth. She has developed and/or tested prevention and intervention strategies to address depression in clinical, primary care and school settings. . She was a Co-Investigator, clinical trainer and supervisor, on the Reaching Out to Adolescents in Distress Study (ROADS; Richardson et al., 2014) of the collaborative care treatment model for management of depression among adolescents in primary care. She has completed two NIMH funded clinical trials, a pilot study of Behavioral Activation as an alternative treatment for depression in adolescence as well as a multisite treatment study (Collaborative Adolescent Research on Emotions and Suicide; CARES) for suicidal youth. Dr. McCauley has also led a number of school-based clinical trials including a NIMH funded depression prevention trial and a just completed IES funded multisite project to test a brief intervention model designed for the school setting.  Dr. McCauley is currently serving as a Deputy Editor, focused on clinical trials, for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescence Psychiatry. Throughout Dr. McCauley’s career, she has been clinically based at Seattle Children’s Hospital and in that context has worked with youth and families dealing with mental health problems as well as those coping with acute and chronic medical conditions.