Alyssa Goodwin, MD is a pediatrician, expert in school health, and pediatric mental health advocate. She earned her BA in Neuroscience from Amherst College and her MD from George Washington University. Before founding Stellar Pediatrics, Dr. Goodwin trained at Children’s National Medical Center and spent two decades practicing primary care pediatrics in Maine, where she developed a deep commitment to child and adolescent mental health.

Dr. Goodwin serves on the Board of Directors for the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), where she co-created and chairs the School Health Committee. In this role, she advances initiatives at the intersection of school health and preventive wellness to better support students statewide. She served as the Maine Learning Ambassador for the AAP’s “Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention” and as faculty for the AAP and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Clinical ECHO. Dr. Goodwin now serves as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Healthy Mental Development Champion for Maine.

In addition, Dr. Goodwin serves on the Board of Directors for the Kita Center, where she is also the medical advisor and a volunteer at their flagship program, Camp Kita.

Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of the influential books The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost and Found, and Raising Human Beings. He is the originator of the model of care described in those books, now called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS). Dr. Greene was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is now founding director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance, which provides a vast array of free, web-based resources on the CPS model. He has appeared in a wide range of media, including The Oprah Show, Good Morning America, The Morning Show, National Public Radio, Mother Jones magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. Dr. Greene lectures and consults widely throughout the world and lives in Portland, Maine.

Gretchen A. Pianka, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a graduate of Amherst College and a product of the University of Vermont School of Medicine and the University of Virginia Pediatric internship and residency program. She earned her master’s in public health from the University of New England. Dr. Pianka has practiced primary care pediatrics in Maine since 2004, currently caring for immigrants and children entering the foster care system. She is the author of Coaching Families for Resilience: How Pediatricians Can Support Caregivers and Prevent Burnout and lives in coastal Maine with her family.