The Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC) at Bradley Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is a nationally recognized leader in pediatric anxiety and OCD research, treatment, and training. PARC, part of both a broader hospital environment at Bradley Hospital and the academic medical center research environment of Brown University, has been at the forefront of helping youth with anxiety/OCD through integration of clinical care, research, and training since 1999.

Jennifer B. Freeman, PhD, founded PARC with Henrietta Leonard, MD, more than twenty years ago and has led the center since its beginning. Over the last two decades, PARC has developed a large multidisciplinary team and become a national model for the integration of active research, training, and innovation within a busy clinical practice.

The pillars of at PARC’s work are research, clinical service, training, innovation, and community engagement. Members of the PARC team collaborate closely across numerous projects, an approach stemming from our core belief that team science produces the most meaningful and high-quality outcomes. All PARC faculty hold academic appointments at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

PARC is an internationally recognized research group in pediatric OCD and anxiety and has received National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research funding continually since 1999. The center has been at the forefront of developing and testing treatments for pediatric OCD, including three seminal large multisite R01 trials which positioned PARC (along with the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University) as leaders in the field of youth OCD treatment research. 

Research Team

Read about PARC's research, treatment, and training for pediatric anxiety and OCD