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"We need to change this and emulate the advancing model of pediatric healthcare, where prevention is the norm," says Dr. Jennifer Havens, newly named chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine.
Havens, who has been interim chair since February 2021, "is passionate about gaining an ever deeper understanding of mental health issues in children and in vulnerable populations, with a goal of consistently improving care," Robert I.
Grossman, dean and CEO of NYU Langone, says in a press release.
"Her tireless vision inspires others to make the world a better place for children every day," Grossman adds.
Havens, a renowned child psychiatrist, has "delivered or supervised the care of thousands of children and adolescents and is deeply involved in many of the city and state mental health initiatives for children," per the press release.
In 2004, she opened the first dedicated psychiatric emergency program for children in the world at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.
She then led the expansion of their acute child psychiatry service to become one of the country's most comprehensive integrated care system.
Havens worked to extend trauma-informed mental health services to New York City's juvenile secure detention facilities and has been
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