Todd Ouida Lecture
Featuring outstanding young researchers working in childhood anxiety and depression.
Featuring outstanding young researchers working in childhood anxiety and depression.
The Todd Ouida Annual Lecture in Childhood Anxiety and Depression honors the memory of Todd Ouida by promoting and supporting outstanding young researchers.
Despite experiencing severe anxiety throughout his early childhood, Todd overcame the disorder and went on to have a rich high school experience, later earning a degree in psychology from U-M. He had just launched into the beginning of a promising career when he lost his life in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks at the age of 25. The lecture is traditionally held in the fall at the Rachel Upjohn Building and features a prominent speaker with expertise in anxiety or depression among youth.
Todd’s parents, Herb and Andrea Ouida, also established the Todd Ouida Clinical Scholar Awards, which are designed to further the work of outstanding young researchers working in childhood anxiety and depression.
After losing their son, Herb and Andrea Ouida gifted an endowed fund to the Eisenberg Family Depression Center honoring Todd's meaningful legacy. This gift has allowed the EFDC to support early-career faculty as they research novel treatments for childhood anxiety and depression. In honor of the 20th year of being able to provide this essential support, we want to thank the Ouida family for their generosity.
2022 |
Eli Lebowitz, Ph.D. Parent-Based Treatment for Child Anxiety and OCD |
2021 |
Emily Bilek, Ph.D. Improving Psychotherapy for Anxious Youth Ewa Czyz, Ph.D. Harnessing Technology to Assess and Intervene with Adolescents at Elevated Suicide Risk Jacek Debiec, M.D., Ph.D. Electroconvulsive Shocks and Aversive Memory Networks Maria Muzik, M.D., M.S. Technological Solutions to Detect and Treat Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Prenatal Care |
2020 |
Jean A. Frazier, M.D. Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Preterm-Born Children and Adolescents |
2019 |
Joan Luby, M.D. Early Childhood Depression: Parent-Child Psychotherapy Targeting Emotion Development |
2018 |
Research presentations by Ouida Scholar Award winners |
2017 |
Cheryl King, Ph.D. A Broad Perspective on Youth Suicide Prevention: What Can We Do? |
2016 |
Jim Hudziak, M.D. Why Child Psychiatry Should Be the Centerpiece of Health Care Reform: The Science Behind the Argument |
2015 |
Eric Storch, Ph.D. D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
2014 |
Melissa DelBello, M.D. Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents |
2013 |
Jay N. Giedd, M.D. The Teen Brain: Insights from Neuroimaging |
2012 |
Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D., ABPP Nonpharmacologic Adjunctive Interventions for Childhood Mood Disorders |
2011 |
David Brent, M.D. Assistance for Treatment Resistance in Adolescent Depression: Lessons from the TORDIA study |
2010 |
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., ABPP Adolescents, Anxiety, and Development: Treatment During the Stage of Storm and Stress |
2009 |
Joan Asarnow, Ph.D. Pediatric Depression: Strategies for Improving |
2008 |
John Piacentini, M.D. Multimodal Treatment of Childhood Anxiety Disorders |
2007 |
John T. Walkup, M.D. Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Children: Update on the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS) |
2006 |
Presentations by Todd Ouida Clinical Scholar Award winners |
2005 |
Daniel Pine, M.D. Developmental Perspectives on Anxiety: An Update from NIMH |
2004 |
John March, M.D., M.P.H. The Treatments of Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): Stage 1 Outcomes |
2003 |
Karen D. Wagner, M.D. Major Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: The Need to Detect and Treat Early |
2022 |
Jane Harness, D.O. |
2021 |
Adam Horwitz, Ph.D. |
2020 |
Megan M. Julian, Ph.D. |
2019 |
Julie E. Premo, Ph.D. |
2018 |
Ewa Czyz, Ph.D. |
2017 |
Emily Bilek, Ph.D. |
2016 |
Wael Shamseddeen, M.D., M.P.H |
2015 |
Jacek Debiec, M.D., Ph.D. |
2014 |
Elizabeth Koschmann, Ph.D. |
2013 |
Ellen Barrett-Becker, Ph.D. |
2012 |
Erika Bocknek, Ph.D. |
2011 |
Polly Gipson, Ph.D. |
2010 |
James Swain, M.D., Ph.D. |
2009 |
Kate Rosenblum, Ph.D. |
2008 |
Julie Kaplow, Ph.D. |
2007 |
Cindy Ewell Foster, Ph.D. |
2006 |
Rich Dopp, M.D. |
2005 |
Maria Muzik, M.D. |
2004 |
Michelle Kees, Ph.D. |
2003 |
Kate Fitzgerald, M.D. |
As a child growing up in River Edge, New Jersey, Todd suffered from a panic disorder so severe that he had to leave school, ultimately missing three years while in intensive therapy. He returned to school in the seventh grade and grew into a popular, generous teen who eventually took the bold step of coming to the University of Michigan to earn a degree in psychology.
Todd Ouida's premature death at 25 in the World Trade Center in the fall of 2001 was, for his parents, a tragic end to a life that had included considerable hard-won triumph.
For Todd's parents, Herb and Andrea Ouida, the route toward accepting their son's death has been to honor Todd's memory by helping other children suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. Their Todd Ouida Children's Foundation, which raises money to support psychological services for families in need in the New York-New Jersey area, now supports dozens of organizations and has already distributed several hundred thousand dollars in gifts.