Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University.  The focus of his work for the last 30 years has been to identify early psychosocial and biological risk factors for the causes of mental health disturbances, as well as to find keys to the development of selective interventions focused on children at risk.

Sourander is principal investigator and co-investigator in several studies and research consortiums. Sourander’s research activity focuses on time trends of psychiatric problems and service use, large birth cohort studies, population-based studies, international multi-site research and intervention studies. He has special expertise in prenatal epidemiology, developmental approaches and investigating the long-term outcome of psychiatric disorders as well as developing clinical methods, family oriented early interventions, RCT and implementation studies of web-based interventions.

Dr. Sourander is responsible for teaching medical students and residents at the Department of Child Psychiatry. He has been the Primary Supervisor of 19 finalized thesis. He is the Primary Supervisor of 6 post-doc researchers and 9 PhD /Dr Med Sc students.