Please join us for the 2024 Annual Lecture of the Medical Library Associates on April 17, 2024 at 4pm in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (SHM L 115). The lecture will be given by Dr. Linda Mayes, Director of the Yale Child Study Center and a Special Advisor to Dean Brown at the Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Linda Mayes is the Director of the Yale Child Study Center and a Special Advisor to Dean Brown at the Yale School of Medicine. She is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, and is specialized in Developmental Pediatrics. She has published extensively in the areas of developmental psychology, pediatrics and child psychiatry.

Dr. Mayes focuses on the impact of biological and psychosocial mechanisms on childhood development, with particular emphasis on parental factors and substance abuse. She has expertise in the neural circuitry of early parental-infant attachment, utilizing neuroimaging and electroencephalography. Her research is inter-disciplinary, and interventional for children and parents at risk.