Richard Tremblay is professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Montréal, and Canada Research Chair in Child Development. For the past 25 years he has conducted a program of longitudinal studies on the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children from conception to adulthood. As director of an interdisciplinary research centre funded by three universities (Laval, McGill and Montréal), his main goal is to integrate genetic, environment, brain and behaviour research to understand the socialisation process. He is also director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development and the Early Childhood Learning Knowkedge Center which seek to disseminate the best available knowledge to policy makers and service providers. Professor Tremblay is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology and of the Royal Society of Canada.
He is a former member of the OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and of the National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime Prevention, Treatment, and Control; and was Chair of the 2002 World Conference of the International Society for Research on Aggression.
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