James Comer, MD, MPH is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center. In 1968 he founded the Comer School Development Program, which promotes a school focus on child development to improve social, emotional, and academic outcomes for children. In 2014 he was appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He received an M.D. from Howard University, is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.