Wendy M. Reinke, Ph.D. is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Missouri.  She is the co-director of the Missouri Prevention Science Institute, and director of the National Center for Rural School Mental Health with special interest in advancing scholarship in the areas of the prevention of disruptive behavior problems in youth and dissemination of school and community-based evidence-based interventions. Dr. Reinke received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in School Psychology and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. She has over 18 years of leadership, training, and scholarship in school-based mental health and evidence-based prevention and intervention. 

Dr. Reinke has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications,17 book chapters, and 7 books including several innovative and influential studies concerning the prevention of child disruptive behavior problems, teacher consultation, and school mental health. She has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on over $50 million dollars in federal funding. Her research spans the prevention science research cycle, including exploratory studies, development and innovation studies, large scale cluster randomized control trials, and scaling up models for wide-scale dissemination.  Much of her work has been in the gap, attempting to bridge what we know works with real world practices.