John P Ackerman Editor

John P. Ackerman, Ph.D., serves as the Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research (CSPR) at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH). Dr. Ackerman is a child and adolescent psychologist, clinical training supervisor, and researcher at NCH. He has contributed to research on neurocognitive risk factors contributing to adolescent suicidal behavior, strategies to enhance transitions from acute care to the community, and media’s role in suicide contagion and prevention. Dr. Ackerman has coordinated the implementation of evidence-based suicide prevention and screening strategies in Ohio schools in more than 20 counties. Dr. Ackerman has also developed a suicide prevention curriculum for out-of-school programs, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in partnership with the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). In partnership with the Zero Suicide Institute, he has led efforts at NCH in in training all Behavioral Health staff in suicide screening, risk assessment, and safety planning. Dr. Ackerman serves on the strategic media committee, autism and suicide committee, and the youth suicide prevention committee of AAS. He is a member of American Psychological Association’s Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and is a member of the executive committee of the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition.
Lisa M. Horowitz, PhD, MPH, is a Staff Scientist / Pediatric Psychologist in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. She serves as a senior attending psychologist with a specialty in pediatric psychology on the Psychiatry Service in the Hatfield Clinical Research Center at NIH. The major focus of Dr. Horowitz’s research has been detection of suicide risk in the medical setting. She is lead PI on six NIMH suicide prevention protocols that involve validating and implementing the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) in the ED, inpatient medical/surgical, outpatient primary care settings. Dr. Horowitz is collaborating with hospitals, outpatient pediatric clinics, and school settings around the country, assisting with implementation of suicide risk screening and management of patients who screen positive using the ASQ Toolkit and Youth Suicide Risk Screening Clinical Pathways.