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Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, is a Clinical Child Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the Director of the A Better Chance Program for children with prenatal substance exposure as well as the Program Coordinator for the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement. Dr. Gurwitch also serves as a program manager for the Terrorism and Disaster Branch of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Dr. Gurwitch received her PhD in Clinical/Medical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed her internship in Pediatric Psychology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago and a fellowship in Child and Family Psychology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Gurwitch’s areas of special interest are the impact of terrorism, disaster, and trauma on children and families; prenatal substance exposure; and interventions with young children who are considered at-risk for behavioral, social, learning and developmental difficulties. |