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Durham Magazine April/May 2023

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WOME N OF ACHIEVEME NT

c o - fou n de r, C e n te r f or Ch il d & Fa mily H ea lt h c o - d ire ctor, U C LA-Du k e Nat io na l Cent er fo r Chi ld Trau m ati c Str ess p ro f essor of Psyc hi atry a nd Beh avio r a l

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S c i en c es, Du k e U n i v e rs it y Sch o o l o f Med icine

s the daughter of a child psychiatrist and a nurse,

Dr. Lisa Amaya-Jackson felt

an ingrained need to help others. She graduated from Jordan High School and then William & Mary before pursuing both her medical degree and master of public health at UNC. Lisa has spent the past 30 years at Duke University

in the same field as her father –

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