Faculty
Education and Clinical TrainingBA: 1978, SUNY Stony Brook, PsychologyMA: 1980, University of Iowa, Clinical Psychology Ph.D.: 1982, University of Iowa, Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow: Brown University, Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics Post Graduate Training: Brown University, Clinical Psychology Clinical Department/Section AffiliationsProfessor, Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesResearch Program and Department AffiliationsCenter for Neuropsychiatric GeneticsNeuroscience and Physiology Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research InterestsPsych. Genetics; ADHD and BP Disorder; Endophenotype. For more detail, see CVResearch AbstractProfessor Stephen Faraone, PhD, is Director of Medical Genetics Research and Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is also Senior Scientific Advisor to the Research Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Faraone is principal investigator on several National Institute of Health funded grants studying the nature and causes of mental disorders in childhood. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on the genetics of psychiatric disorders and has also made substantial contributions to research in psychopharmacology and research methodology. An author on over 600 journal articles, editorials, chapters and books, he was the eighth highest producer of High Impact Papers in Psychiatry from 1990 to 1999 as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, Science, 2000, Vol 288, pg 959). In 2005, ISI determined him to be the second highest cited author in the area of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the fourth highly cited researcher in psychiatry for the preceding decade. He is a well known national and international speaker who has given invited lectures in Europe, Asia and South America. Dr. Faraone is Editor of the journal Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Associate Editor for Statistics and Methodology of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. He is also a member of the Panel of Biostatistical and Methodology Consultants for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is a member of the Editorial Boards for Biological Psychiatry, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, the Journal of Attention Disorders, and Behavioral and Brain Function. In 2002, Dr. Faraone was inducted into the CHADD Hall of Fame in recognition of outstanding achievement in medicine and education research on attention disorders and in 2004 he was elected to the Vice Presidency of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. He is the recipient of the 2008 SUNY Upstate President's Award for Excellence and Leadership in Research. Publications - link to PubMedNote: The above PubMed link opens a new window. Close the PubMed window to return to this page.This profile was last updated on 06/25/2009 A short link is available for this profile: |
