SJSU Professor Lewis Aptekar

A clinical psychologist and career academic, Lewis Aptekar has taken part in numerous research efforts, lectures and programs centered on creating an improved understanding, and better addressing, the issues facing disadvantaged populations within developing nations. Much of Aptekar’s focus in these efforts has been on the problems and issues confronted by street children; those often among the most vulnerable within any given society or community. As someone who has devoted much of his time and research toward the study of struggling populations within developing nations, Lewis Aptekar has, at times, sought to immerse himself directly within those cultures and peoples so as to obtain a firsthand account of the situations they are experiencing; an effort essential to developing and implementing policies and procedures that not only better address the issues they face on a daily basis, but to help create a system more inclined to preventing such problems from occurring in th...