Robert Hendren

Professor of Psychiatry
Executive Director, M.I.N.D. Institute
(Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of California, Davis
President, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Hendren took his residency in general psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center.  He was the Director of Medical Student Education at the George Washington University School of Medicine until 1986, the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital at the University of New Mexico until 1996. From 1996 until 2001, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Director, Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson and New Jersey Medical Schools and Director, Behavioral Research and Training Institute at UMDNJ-University Behavioral HealthCare, RWJMS, NJMS.

Dr. Hendren is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and will serve as its President from 2007-2009 and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves on many national committees.  He is board certified in General as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  His primary areas of research and publication interests are translational clinical pharmacology and nutritional trials using biomarkers (MRI, measures of inflammation, oxidative stress, immune function and pharmacogenomics) in neurodevelopmental disorders such as 
Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, and impulse control disorders.  He has over 80 original papers and four books in the field of psychiatry.  He has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America”, each year since it was published in 1998.