Helen Egger
Founder and Co-Lead, WonderLab; Chair, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Study Center; and Director, Child Study Center, NYU Langone Medical Center
Helen Egger is the Arnold Simon Professor and chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, where she directs the Child Study Center. A child psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and digital health innovator, Egger leads a department working on advancing children’s mental health. She founded the NYULH WonderLab, a multidisciplinary team that creates digital products for child mental health research and clinical care, and has launched early childhood studies on autism and picky eating. Egger co-directs the NYULH Digital DesignLab and founded early childhood mental health start-up Little Otter. Previously at Duke University, she led the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and directed the Early Childhood Research Program in the Duke Center for Developmental Epidemiology.