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Prof. Laura Mufson is a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and the associate director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. She also is co-director of the Office of Clinical Psychology at CUIMC and the director of clinical psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is the developer of the adaptation of interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescent depression (IPT-A) and is an expert international trainer in IPT-A. Prof. Mufson has had an active research career, studying the efficacy and effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. She has been the principal investigator, co-investigator, and/or consultant with colleagues on numerous grants studying adaptations of IPT-A to be delivered in schools, primary care clinics, and community clinics. She is an author of three books on interpersonal psychotherapy and the author of numerous publications on adolescent depression, interpersonal psychotherapy, and clinical interventions for social anxiety and depression in adolescents delivered in community settings. Prof. Mufson is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Division 53, the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.