Liza Suarez

Liza Suarez

Liza Suarez is an associate professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. Suarez is also the co-director of the Urban Youth Trauma Center and the director of the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, both funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Initiative.

She has been actively involved in services, research, training and mentoring for more than 25 years, supporting underserved communities.

Suarez has directed the development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of assessment, prevention and intervention protocols and programs to address violence exposure, traumatic stress, anxiety and substance abuse.

She values the importance of developing partnerships with the community, as well as implementing trauma-informed, healing centered and restorative evidence-based practices in research, clinical and community settings.