Joan L. Luby, M.D.

Joan L. Luby, M.D., is the Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Psychiatry (Child) at the Washington University School of Medicine, where she had founded and leads the Early Emotional Development Program. Luby specializes in infant/preschool psychiatry and her clinical and research program has focused on early childhood psychopathology and emotional development, specifically in application to the risk trajectory for early onset depressive disorders. Her clinical expertise is on early childhood psychopathology in the mood and affective domain and how this relates to alterations in emotion development.