J. Douglas Coatsworth, Ph.D., is the Betsey R. Bush Endowed Professor in Behavioral Health and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to coming to the UT College of Social Work, Dr. Coatsworth held faculty positions in Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University (2014-2020) and The Pennsylvania State University (2000- 2014), and in Psychiatry at the Center for Family Studies at the University of Miami School of Medicine (1994-2000). He has also held numerous administrative positions. At Colorado State University we was founding director of the Colorado State University Prevention Research Center and director of the Applied Developmental Science program. He served as director of the undergraduate and graduate programs in HDFS at Penn State. While at the University of Miami Center for Family Studies he was the Associate Director for Research and Co-Director of the Prevention Research Branch. Trained as a Developmental-Clinical Psychologist at the University of Minnesota, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in prevention research at Arizona State University. His 30+ years of research experience focuses broadly on understanding processes of risk and protection in the development of problem behaviors or resilience, and on developing and testing ways to prevent or treat problems in mental, emotional and behavioral health.