Liza Suarez
Co-director of the Urban Youth Trauma Center; Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
Biography
Liza Suarez (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois Chicago)
Liza Suarez is co-director of the Urban Youth Trauma Center, a federally funded center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network that addresses the psychological needs of youth impacted by trauma, including community violence. Suarez has developed and disseminated interventions that help youth providers address traumatic stress and substance abuse problems among adolescents.
She is also an associate professor of clinical psychology in the UIC College of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic.
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In the News
Urban Youth Trauma Center to expand training, services under new grant
November 11, 2016