Scott Palyo, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and is the medical director at Safe Horizon Counseling Center, a clinic devoted to the treatment of victims of crimes. He also works at NYU Langone-Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn. Scott is a clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at NY Medical College. He attended Emory Univ. and Univ. of Texas and completed his residencies at St. Vincent’s Hospital/NY Medical College. Scott currently serves as president of the NY Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AACAP early career psychiatrist representative to the National Assembly, and an executive board member to the AACAP.