About the Gamut School

Roy Boorady, MD, is the Senior Director and a senior child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Psychopharmacology Center at the Child Mind Institute. An expert in the diagnostic evaluation and psychopharmacological treatment of children and adolescents, he is known for his judgment and sensitivity in coordinating, monitoring and adjusting treatment plans that include medication.

Dr. Boorady’s past experience has included providing psychiatric evaluations and psychopharmacological treatments to children with severe psychiatric disorders, ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders and developmental delays. He is a dedicated teacher and advocate for individualized, evidence-based treatments, and has mentored hundreds of medical students and psychiatric residents. He has also organized seminars and lecture series to address urgent questions on how and whether medications should be prescribed to children and adolescents.

Dr. Alec Miller is a clinical psychologist, teacher, researcher, author, treatment developer and disseminator of evidence-based interventions to clinical settings, schools and organizations worldwide. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants (CBC) , a clinical, training, and research center based in White Plains and Manhattan. He has become a Certified Individual DBT Clinician and his DBT Programs at CBC are the first and only Certified DBT Programs in NY State as deemed by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. Presently, he is a consultant to numerous DBT research studies internationally as well as to over 100 schools that have or are currently implementing DBT in Schools, targeting different levels of student intervention. He truly enjoys presenting to parents, teachers and administrators his perspective on social emotional learning and his rationale and methodology for bringing both Comprehensive School Based-DBT (CSB-DBT) and Universal Classroom-DBT(UC-DBT) to school age students. In addition, he serves as a School Board Trustee of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.

Dr. Miller serves on several boards and advisory committees, including as a Board Member on the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification (DBT-LBC) and as a clinical advisor to BeMeHealth with Teens in Mind. He serves on the steering committee of the World DBT Association (WDBTA) and on the Advisory Board of the IDEAL School in Manhattan. He is an invited member of the International Academy for Suicide Research, a scientific advisory council member of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, and a past consultant on the FDA’s Suicide Classification Project.

Dr. John J. Russell is Associate Director of the Global Literacy Hub at the Yale Child Study Center which is an international and interdisciplinary collaborative of researchers and practitioners.  The mission of the hub is to improve language and literacy outcomes for at risk children, across languages and cultures. To that end, this unique collaborative of experts has been disrupting the current, stagnant ecosystem with new and scientifically rigorous approaches. He is also the Special Projects Advisor to The Windward Institute whose mission is to increase childhood literacy by disrupting the status quo in education. The Institute spearheads research/education partnerships; leads a variety of external-facing programs and outreach including high-profile lectures, courses, and seminars; and advocates for the rights of students with language-based learning. Prior to serving as Special Projects Advisor to the Windward Institute, for thirteen years Dr. Russell was head of The Windward School, an independent co-educational day school for children with language-based learning disabilities.

Over the past four decades, Dr. Russell held leadership and teaching positions in public school districts in Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, including 11 years as superintendent of schools in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.  His pro bono work includes advising the Mayor of New York’s Citywide Literacy Advisory Council, the Dyslexia and Intervention Practices sub-council of the Literacy Advisory Council, and The New York State Path Forward Initiative as an advisor to the Educator Preparation Working Group. He earned his doctoral degree in educational administration at Fordham University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.  He also has a master’s degree in oceanography from New York University and a certificate of advanced study in administration from Fairfield University.  His research interests include language-based learning disabilities, research-based instructional practices, and organizational theory.  Dr. Russell presents on these topics at national and international conferences.