Glenn Mesman, PhD is a licensed Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologist and Professor in the UAMS Department of Psychiatry, and he is the Assistant Training Director of the department’s psychology training program. Clinically, he specializes in early childhood mental and the assessment and treatment of childhood trauma. Dr. Mesman holds several leadership positions within Arkansas Building Effective Services for Trauma (ARBEST), a program sponsored by the state legislature to improve outcomes of traumatized children throughout the state. He co-leads the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) statewide dissemination project and is certified as a PCIT Regional Trainer and a DC:0-5 state trainer. He additionally co-directs the UAMS Complex Trauma Assessment Program, which provides trauma-informed psychological evaluation services for high-risk children in the Arkansas child welfare system. Dr. Mesman is actively involved in committees and workgroups as part of several national- and international-level professional organizations and frequently conducts invited and peer-reviewed presentations at state, national, and international conferences in his specialty areas of early childhood mental health and child trauma. Dr. Mesman earned his doctorate in clinical child and adolescent psychology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and completed his doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UAMS.