Dr. Maureen Zalewski is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Oregon. She serves as the Director of Clinical Training in the clinical psychology doctoral program and as co Department Head at the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. Her research and clinical work focus on treating mothers with mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, leveraging dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a leading treatment in preventing suicide and emotion dysregulation. Her work examines the extent to which treating mothers with DBT has downstream effects on their children, such as child emotional and behavioral problems. More recently, her team has examined risk and protective factors related to suicidal thoughts and behaviors among perinatal women.  Her research has been funded for over a decade, including from the National Institutes of Health and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), where she also serves as a Scientific Advisor for AFSP.