Andres J. Pumariega is professor and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University. He is founding former cochair of the Work Group on Systems of Care of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the author or coauthor of more than ninety scientific articles, chapters, and monographs on a wide variety of topics including child mental health and cultural competence. He is the coeditor (with Hubert B. Vance) of Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).

Nancy C. Winters is assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program, at the Oregon Health and Science University. She is the current cochair of the Work Group on Systems of Care of the AACAP.