Dr. Brandon T. McDaniel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine Fort Wayne, and internationally recognized expert on the impacts of technology use on relationships, families, and children. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has published more than 80 scholarly articles related to technology use, parenting, family relationships, and more. He also regularly engages in community education in the promotion of healthy digital habits.

Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, is the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, the Chief Health Officer at Special Olympics International, Editor in Chief of JAMA Pediatrics, and Chief Science Officer at Children and Screens.  He has devoted his career to investigating how early experiences impact children and to helping parents improve their children's early learning environments. He and his colleagues in the Christakis Lab have made a number of landmark findings, including discovering that young children who watch TV are more likely to develop attention problems and other health and behavioral issues. He is the author of 170+ original research articles, a textbook of pediatrics, and co-author of the groundbreaking book, The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids. He is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine, and the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Eva Telzer is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill and the co-director of the Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain and Psychological Development. Her research examines how social and cultural processes shape adolescent brain development, with a focus on both prosocial and risk-taking behaviors, family and peer relationships, and the role of social media in youth’s lives. She has authored over 200+ publications and has received numerous awards for her work including an Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, an early career award from the Society of Research on Adolescence, a Young Investigator Award from the Flux Congress Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. She is regularly featured as an expert in psychological science in consultation to government agencies and non-profit associations.

Lauren Hale, PhD is a Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Program in Public Health, at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine. She studies the social patterning of sleep health and how it contributes to inequalities in health and well-being with current or previous funding from NICHD, NIDDK, NHLBI, NIA, and the Della Pietra Family Foundation. Dr. Hale is interested in sleep health equity, policies related to sleep health (i.e. high school start time, daylight saving time), and behavioral modifications (i.e. reducing evening screen use, increasing physical activity) for improving sleep health at the individual and population level. Dr. Hale has over 175 peer-reviewed journal articles, served on the National Sleep Foundation’s Board of Directors and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sleep Health.  She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Pajama Program and Children and Screens.

Dr. Potenza is the Stephen M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry, Professor in the Child Study Center and Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine, and he directs the Division on Addictions Research, Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, Women and Addictive Disorders Core, Health Research at Yale and Yale Research Program on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders.

He is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training in addiction psychiatry. Dr. Potenza’s research focuses on the neurobiology and treatment of addictions and other disorders, including gambling disorder, that are characterized by impaired impulse control and reward-related motivations. 

Dr. Potenza has published over 800 papers and chapters and has has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in research and clinical care.