Angelika (Angie) Claussen, PhD, is a Research Psychologist with the Applied Research and Evaluation team at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Her current work includes parenting and early childhood, children’s emotional and mental health, and specific conditions affecting children’s development such as ADHD and Tourette syndrome. Her ADHD work includes understanding diagnosis and treatment patterns, learning more about risk and protective factors, and about ways to improve developmental outcomes. Angie Claussen attended the University of Regensburg for undergraduate studies in psychology, completed her MS and PhD degrees in applied developmental psychology at the University of Miami, and then became Director of Research at the Linda Ray Intervention Center for the University of Miami, Department of Psychology. There she conducted research into early intervention for children at risk, social emotional development, maltreatment, parenting, and attachment.