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Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center and Director of the the Childhood Trust at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Director of the Psychological Services Center & Trauma Response Team of the Doctoral Psychology Program at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
Coordinator of Psychology and Special Education Services in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His research focuses on risk and resiliency factors in youth.
A partner with Denizen Consulting working with schools on student support services policy development. Former Executive Director of the New York City Department of Education's Division of Student Support Services where he was responsible for citywide initiatives addressing student discipline, physical and mental health and crisis management pre and post 911.
Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Prevention and Education Division at the Central Clinic and the Chairperson of the Division of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing for the Department of Psychiatry.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Units at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Recognized authority in counseling children and families who have experienced trauma, whether related to a disaster or act of terrorism, or from interpersonal violence or abuse.
Educational Consultant for the Connecticut State Department of Education where he oversees initiatives addressing mental health and discipline. As an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Social Work at Southern Connecticut State University, he teaches coursework related to social work in educational settings.
A partner with Denizen Consulting working with schools on crisis preparedness and student support service policy development. Former Director of the Office of Student Services for the Staten Island Public Schools, New York City Department of Education where he directed crisis intervention initiatives pre and post 911.
President/Director of Families of September 11, Inc. Dedicated advocate for family and children’s issues related to crisis events.
Dr. Schonfeld is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and the Thelma and Jack Rubinstein Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and Director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is a member the American Academy of Pediatrics Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council and served as a Commissioner for the National Commission on Children and Disasters. Dr. Schonfeld is also Professor Adjunct of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, Honorary Faculty at the Università del Piemonte Orientale (Novara, Italy) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) and Guest Professor of Chongqing Medical University (Chongqing, China) and coordinates the mental health component of the European Masters in Disaster Medicine course in Italy.
Dr. Schonfeld established the School Crisis Response Program in 1991, which provided training to tens of thousands of school-related personnel in school systems throughout the country and abroad and provided technical assistance in hundreds of school crisis events. He consulted to the NYC Department of Education to help optimize the infrastructure within the system for crisis preparedness and response and to provide training to and technical assistance in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, which included the training of approximately 1,000 district and school-level crisis teams. In 2005, Dr. Schonfeld was awarded funding by the September 11th Children’s Fund and the National Philanthropic Trust to establish a National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement. The goal of the NCSCB is to promote an appreciation of the role schools can serve to support students, staff, and families at times of crisis and loss; to collaborate with organizations and agencies to further this goal; and to serve as a resource for information, training materials, consultation, and technical assistance. Dr. Schonfeld has provided consultation and training on school crisis and pediatric bereavement in the aftermath of a number of school crisis events and disasters within the United States and abroad, including flooding from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Hurricane Ike in Galveston, tornadoes in Joplin, MO and Alabama and the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
Dr. Schonfeld has authored articles, book chapters, and a handbook on school crisis preparedness and a book for teachers on supporting the grieving student (The Grieving Student: A Teacher’s Guide; published by Brookes Publishing in 2010) and has provided presentations and consultations throughout the United States and abroad on the topic of pediatric bereavement and the mental health needs of children in crisis situations. In addition, Dr. Schonfeld is actively engaged in school-based research (funded by NICHD, NIMH, NIDA, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, William T Grant Foundation, and other foundations) involving children’s understanding of and adjustment to serious illness and death and school-based interventions to promote adjustment and risk prevention. He was President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics from September 2006-07.
Formerly with the US Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools where she served for eleven years as a Program Manager for various grant programs and projects related to school safety, emergency management, and drug and violence prevention. Currently working in the private sector on national security programs.
Former director of the Program for School Preparedness and planning in the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; co-author of three books on school safety.
Assistant Dean and Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Previous director of Mental Health Services, Crisis Suicide Prevention and Counseling and Intervention Services for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
