Thomas Anders

Dr. Anders graduated from Stanford University (1956) and Stanford University School of Medicine (1960) prior to completing a rotating internship at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC, and 1 year of pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston. Drafted into the USAF, he served for 2 years as a flight surgeon and USAF pediatrician. He then completed psychiatry training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY. A two-year post-doctoral research fellowship and two years of faculty appointment at AECOM/Montefiore Hospital preceded his appointment as Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at SUNY/Buffalo. He also has headed Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford (1974-1984) and Brown University (1985-1992). He joined the faculty of UC Davis as Department of Psychiatry Chair (1992-1998) and then as Executive Associate Dean (1998-2002). He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. His long standing clinical and research interests are in the areas of maturation of infant sleep-wake states and pediatric sleep disorders. He is an NIH funded investigator.  He is currently the President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2005-2007).