Dr. Elizabeth Skowron is a Professor and Associate Director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Pennsylvania State University, where she conducts basic, translational, and intervention research on child maltreatment prevention. Together with her students and collaborators, she studies the psychosocial and physiological bases of at-risk parenting that potentiate risk for child maltreatment and response to intervention. She conducts clinical trials to examine the effectiveness of family-based interventions like Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for strengthening caregiving skills, and child behavior outcomes in families involved with the child welfare system. Dr. Skowron earned her Ph.D. at the State University of New York, Albany, and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center and post-doctoral fellowship in child clinical psychology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a licensed psychologist and certified PCIT trainer. She has served on and chaired NIH grant review panels, and her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse.