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Stephen V Faraone, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
301 713 Harrison Street
Upstate Medical University
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
(315) 464-3113
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| Education and Clinical Training
BA: 1978, SUNY Stony Brook, Psychology
MA: 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 Affiliations
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Program and Department Affiliations
Center for Neuropsychiatric Genetics
Neuroscience and Physiology
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests Psych. Genetics; ADHD and BP Disorder; Endophenotype. For more detail, see CV
Research Abstract
Professor 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 PubMed
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This profile was last updated on 06/25/2009
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