Ron Dahl, MD

Ron is chair of UCLA CDA’s advisory board and was the founding director of CDA. He is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, served for 12 years as Director of the Institute of Human Development, previously served as president of the Society for Research on Child Development, and was one of the founding editors of the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Ron has dedicated his career to interdisciplinary team research focused on improving the lives and trajectories of children and adolescents.