Stephen Faraone

Stephen V. Faraone is an American psychologist. He has worked mainly on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and related disorders.

Education and career

Faraone graduated in 1978 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BA in Psychology with highest honors. He then went to the University of Iowa where he obtained his master’s and Ph.D. degrees. Faraone completed a postdoctoral clinical psychology internship and a research fellowship at the Brown University Program in Medicine.

After completing his post-doctoral fellowship at Brown, Faraone came to the Harvard Department of Psychiatry where he began a career in psychiatric genetics. He first served as an instructor in 1985, and as an Assistant Professor in 1989. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1993 and Full Professor in 2002. In 2004 he moved to SUNY Upstate Medical University where he is now Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology.^[1] He is also Senior Scientific Advisor to the Research Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the Massachusetts General Hospital^[2] and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Faraone is principal investigator on several National Institutes 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.

Awards and honors

Faraone has authored over 700 journal articles,^[3] editorials, chapters, and books and was the eighth highest producer of High Impact Papers in Psychiatry from 1990 to 1999 as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).^[4] In 2005, ISI determined him to be the second highest cited author in the area of ADHD^[5] and in 2007 he was the third most highly cited researcher in psychiatry^[6] for the preceding decade. In 2011 he was the seventh most highly cited researcher in psychiatry and psychology for the preceding decade [2]. His 2011 lifetime H-Index is 37 [3].

In 2002, Faraone was inducted into the CHADD Hall of Fame in recognition of outstanding achievement in medicine and education research on attention disorders.^[7] In 2004 and 2008 he was elected to the Vice Presidency of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics.^[8] In 2008, he received the SUNY Upstate President’s Award for Excellence and Leadership in Research. In 2009 he was awarded Alumni Fellow status at the University of Iowa. In 2010 he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York.

Books Published

• Tsuang MT, Faraone SV. The Genetics of Mood Disorders, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins; 1990
• Faraone SV, Tsuang, D, Tsuang MT. Genetics of Mental Disorders: A Guide for Students, Clinicians, and Researchers, New York, NY: Guilford;1999.
• Faraone, S.V. Straight Talk About Your Child’s Mental Health: What To Do When Something Seems Wrong, New York, NY: Guilford, 2003.
• Tsuang MT, Faraone SV & Glatt SG Schizophrenia: The Facts, Oxford University Press; 2011.

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