Pamela Cantor, M.D. practiced child and adolescent psychiatry for nearly two decades, specializing in trauma. She founded Turnaround for Children in 2002, after co-authoring a study on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on NYC schoolchildren. She recognized that the research on stress and the developing brain she studied in medical school needed to be shared and translated for the systems that educate children. Today, Turnaround translates scientific knowledge about how children develop and learn into tools and services that establish the conditions and practices all students need to thrive. Dr. Cantor is a founding leader of the Science of Learning and Development Alliance, a collaborative effort focused on elevating science, advancing equity, and transforming education. Dr. Cantor received an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education.