Wanda Draper

Wanda Draper, Ph.D., professor emeritus of human development in the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, taught behavioral science to physicians in their psychiatry residency programs for twenty years. Dr. Draper has consulted nationally and internationally on child development and parent education. As an expert witness, she has testified in over a hundred capital murder trials and child custody cases about the relationship between childhood development and...See more

Wanda Draper, Ph.D., professor emeritus of human development in the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, taught behavioral science to physicians in their psychiatry residency programs for twenty years. Dr. Draper has consulted nationally and internationally on child development and parent education. As an expert witness, she has testified in over a hundred capital murder trials and child custody cases about the relationship between childhood development and adulthood consequences. She studied at Texas Woman's University, with additional studies at Harvard University and in Geneva, Switzerland. The author of seventeen books, she has appeared on television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has been quoted in CNN News, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parent magazine, and Reader's Digest. See less