Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino
Professor, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Finland

Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino studied in the University of Tampere and graduated in medicine in 1989 and social sciences in 2000. She became specialist in psychiatry in 1999 and in adolescent psychiatry in 2004, and specialist in forensic psychiatry in University of Turku in 2016. Since 2005 she is the director of the Department of Adolescent Psychiatry. She is the professor of adolescent psychiatry in the University of Tampere since 2009. Her research interests focus on aggression and violence in adolescent mental disorders.