The Yale Child Study Center will pay tribute to its former director, the late Dr. Donald J. Cohen, by dedicating an auditorium in his name.
The celebration honoring the renowned child psychiatrist will begin with two days of grand rounds on Wednesday, June 12, and Tuesday, June 18, followed by a day-long dedication ceremony on Wednesday, June 19, at 8:15 a.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St.
On June 12 at noon Dr. Arthur Eidelman will present the Department of Pediatrics grand rounds in Fitkin Amphitheatre, 330 Cedar St. On June 18 at 1 p.m., the Child Study Center grand rounds will be presented by Dr. Jocelyn Hattab, and at 2:30 p.m., the Department of Child Psychoanalysis grand rounds will be presented by Dr. Wayne Downey, Peter Fonagy and Steven Marans.
The June 19 dedication ceremony will include presentations by Dante Cicchetti, Sue Levi Pearl, Abbey Meyers and Dr. Duane Alexander. A seminar titled "Children Exposed to Community Violence" will follow at 3 p.m. The dedication will end at 4:30 p.m. with a reception at the Donald J. Cohen Auditorium at the Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Rd.
All of the above events are free and open to the public.
Cohen was director of the Child Study Center from 1983 until his death in October 2001. He was widely recognized as the leading American child psychiatrist of his generation. He made groundbreaking contributions in biological psychiatry, clinical care and the development of international collaborations in child psychiatry, and he pioneered neurobiological research into autism and tic disorders, particularly Tourette's syndrome.
Together with colleagues at the Child Study Center and around the world, Cohen developed a series of programs to assist children exposed to violence and disaster. One such program, the Yale-New Haven Child Development Community Policing Program, trains police officers, who usually are the first to encounter children who have witnessed or committed a violent crime, in how to respond to children and families, with immediate assistance from a team of clinicians from the Child Study Center and specially trained officers to help children cope with the trauma of exposure to violence.
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