Dr. West is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director for Education, Research, and Mentorship in the CHLA Department of Psychology, Director of the CHLA Child Clinical and Pediatric Psychology Internship, and Director and Principal Investigator of the Pediatric Intervention Research in Anxiety and Mood Disorders (PIRAMD) Lab. In addition, Dr. West holds a secondary appointment as a Professor in the Department of Psychology at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Dr. West’s primary clinical and research interests focus on psychosocial treatment outcome and mechanisms of treatment response in pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, and specifically the application of such interventions to underserved, ethnic minority populations. She is the developer of a family-based cognitive-behavioral intervention, child and family-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (CFF-CBT) – also called RAINBOW therapy -- for children 7-13 with bipolar spectrum disorders. CFF-CBT is now an evidence-based treatment with manuals published in Oxford University Press's "Treatments That Work" series. Dr. West also has research interests in the developmental psychopathology of mood and anxiety disorders in children, preventing suicidal behavior in youth, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) mental health and substance use disparities. She has been funded by NIMH, PCORI, SAMHSA, CA DHHS, and multiple private foundations for her research in these areas. She is currently a Co-I and the Director of CBT implementation on a large clinical trial studying medication and CBT treatment sequencing for pediatric anxiety disorders in a predominantly underserved, ethnic minority population. Dr. West is also a co-I for the CHLA site of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, and co-I on research funded by DHHS/SAMHSA to address opioid and substance use prevention and treatment in California urban and rural AIAN tribal communities.