Irma Moilanen, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Finland. She was the Chair of Child Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Oulu from 1986 to 2009, and Professor of Child Psychiatry from 1992 to 2009. Professor Moilanen received her M.D. from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1970, and became a Specialist in Pediatrics in 1976. She received her Ph.D. of Medical Science, from the University of Oulu, specializing in Child Psychiatry in 1981. She became an Adjunct Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Tampere, Finland in 1993. Professor Moilanen has served domestically as the Chair of the Executive Committee at the Graduate School of Circumpolar Wellbeing, Health and Adaptation, Oulu, where she is currently the Chair of the section of Health and Healthcare in the North, and as the Vice President of the Finnish Child Psychiatric Research Foundation. In addition, she was the Chair of the Executive Board of the Multiple Birth Foundation in Finland as well as the Vice President of the Child Protection Association: Friends of the Young. Professor Moilanen continues as a Member of several medical funding committees in Finland. She is the direct supervisor and an external reviewer for many doctoral theses. Internationally, she has been the Treasurer of Union Europeénne des Medicins Specialistes, section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, delegate of Finland, as well as the Chair, Advisor or Executive Member of many scientific boards. Professor Moilanen engages in ongoing research concerning children´s neurological and psychological development. She is the principal investigator (i.e., Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders in Oulu University, currently in its 12th year of longitudinal investigation) or co- investigator on several national and international collaborative studies focusing on child psychiatric disorders. She also conducts longitudinal epidemiological child and adolescent psychiatric studies with collaborators in the US, UK, Germany and Scandinavia. Her work groups are multi-disciplinary teams including geneticists, radiologists, neurologists, psychologists, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, and educators at nursery and primary schools. Professor Moilanen has published over 200 original publications in peer reviewed scientific journals as well as numerous review articles and book chapters; she has also presented her work worldwide as a speaker at Nordic and International conventions. Her primary research interests include developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, with a focus on Autism and ADHD (early identification, prevalence, etiology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging), infant psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, cross cultural mental health, and the effects of psychosocial stressors (e.g., familial relocation ) on children’s mental health.