The 2025 Congress was made possible by the guidance of Children and Screens’ founder and members of the Institute’s National Scientific Advisory Board. Their combined expertise helped shape the Congress’s programming to best reflect the event’s goal of bringing together interdisciplinary experts to explore how digital media use impacts the social, psychological, cognitive, behavioral, and physical development of children and adolescents.
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, JAMA Pediatrics, Special Olympics, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Lauren Hale, PhD
Stony Brook University
Pam Hurst-Della Pietra, DO
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, Stony Brook University
Heather Kirkorian, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marc Potenza, MD, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
Stephanie Reich, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Ellen Wartella, PhD
Northwestern University
Paul Weigle, MD
Hartford Hospital, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
