Joseph Biederman, MD

Dr. Biederman is Chief Clinical and Research in Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Chief of the Adult ADHD Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Biederman is Board Certified in General and Child Psychiatry. He has been the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association Blanche Ittelson Award for Excellence in Child Psychiatric Research, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Charlotte Norbert Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement. He has been inducted into the CHADD "Hall of Fame". Dr Biederman has also been selected every year since its inception into the "The Best Doctors in America" compilation of the best physicians in the country. Dr. Biederman is mentor to more than 10 junior investigators in the field. He is on the editorial board of multiple journals, a reviewer for most of the Psychiatric journals, and has served as a grant reviewer in the Child Psychopathology and Treatment Review Committee of the NIMH. Dr. Biederman is the author and co-author of close to 500 papers, scientific articles, 70 book chapters and more than 450 scientific abstracts. In 2000, Dr. Biederman pioneered and established a Stanley Foundation Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital dedicated to the treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder. Dr. Biederman's work is supported by multiple federal and pharmaceutical industry grants. During the decade of the 1990's, he was the fourth highest producer of high impact papers in psychiatry as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information an the highest rank child psychiatrist (Science, 2000, Vol 288, pg 959). Dr. Biederman was the recipient of the 1998 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist award. He was also the recipient of the 2002 NARSAD Senior Investigator award. Since 2002 Dr. Biederman has been appointed as an associate editor to the journal Biological Psychiatry.