Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH

Director Emeritus, NC Child Treatment Program

Leadership & Senior Management,

Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with more than 30 years of experience in the field of child trauma treatment. Dr. Amaya-Jackson is a tenured professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, the Director of Duke Psychiatry’s Evidence-based Practice Implementation Center, and a Co-Director of the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the coordinating center for the SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Dr. Amaya-Jackson is also a co-founder of the Center for Child & Family Health (CCFH), a collaboration among three universities that offers specialized services and training for community providers working with children exposed to trauma. She additionally serves as Director Emeritus of the NC Child Treatment Program (NC CTP), a statewide public mental health initiative that trains clinicians to deliver evidence-based trauma treatments.

Dr. Amaya-Jackson is known for her research on assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment, and for her experience in effectively implementing child trauma-informed, evidence-based treatments (EBTs) in community practice. Dr. Amaya-Jackson’s research and training interests currently focus on implementation science and decision-making guidance in the use of EBTs to create a trauma-informed mental health workforce, as well as on. She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and co-edited Enhancing Early Attachments: Theory, Research, Intervention, and Policy. Dr. Amaya-Jackson’s efforts span policy development, workforce training, and clinical strategies to build a trauma-informed mental health workforce nationwide.

Areas of Focus: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 12 Core Concepts of Childhood Trauma, trauma screening and assessment, trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), implementation science, trauma-specific evidence-based treatments.