Dr. Julie Kaplow

Executive Vice President, Trauma and Grief Programs and Policy; Executive Director, Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center; Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Julie Kaplow, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist, board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. She serves as Executive Vice President of Trauma and Grief Programs and Policy and Executive Director of the Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute in Houston. Dr. Kaplow is also Executive Director of the TAG Center at Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine. She is also CEO of the Lucine Center for Trauma and Grief, a group practice that provides teletherapy to youth exposed to traumas and losses across the states of Texas and Louisina. In these roles, she oversees the development, evaluation, and dissemination of trauma- and bereavement-informed “best practices” nationwide. Following tragedies such as Hurricane Harvey and the Santa Fe school shooting in Texas, Dr. Kaplow and her team provided evidence-based risk screening and interventions to impacted children and families. More recently, they have conducted trainings and provided ongoing consultation to the Uvalde school district following the Robb Elementary School shooting as well as the Kerr County community following the Central Texas flooding.

Dr. Kaplow has published widely on the topics of childhood trauma and grief and has served as Principal Investigator on numerous grant-funded programs focused on enhancing resilience in youth exposed to adversity. She is lead author of Multidimensional Grief Therapy, co-author of Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents, and co-author of Trauma Systems Therapy. Dr. Kaplow has served as a consultant to the DSM-5 Sub-Work Group on Prolonged Grief Disorder, the ICD-11 Work Group on Disorders Associated with Stress, the National Academy of Medicine (Scientific Advisory Council on Child Death), and the Mass Violence and Children Working Group of the FBI.

Prior to joining the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Dr. Kaplow served as Chief of Psychology and Vice Chair for Behavioral Health at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke University. She completed her internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School followed by postdoctoral training at the Center for Medical and Refugee Trauma at Boston Medical Center.