Anjené Addington, PhD, MPH, is a psychiatric genetics researcher with degrees from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is coordinating efforts and conducting analyses to identify genetic influences on the development of childhood onset schizophrenia as well as relevant intermediate phenotypes.

Jonathan Blumenthal, MA, is a Research Psychologist.  His degree is from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Project Coordinator for several alcohol and ADHD studies.  He currently focuses on automated measures of brain development using MRI in collaboration with Montreal Neurological Institute and is the Project Coordinator of the Study of Sex Chromosome Variations, including Klinefelter Syndrome and Triple X Syndrome.

Kristen Eckstrand, BA, is a Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award recipient with a major in Psychology and double minor in Integrative Biology and Women's Studies from Beloit College. She is currently studying the genetic aspects of childhood-onset schizophrenia.

Jay N. Giedd, MD, is a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist and Chief of Brain Imaging at the Child Psychiatry Branch where he conducts research on the biological basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders. He is board certified in General, Child and Adolescent, and Geriatric Psychiatry.

Pete Gochman, MA, is a Research Psychologist. His is currently working on the neuropsychological aspects of Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia. He also manages the Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia database.

Nitin Gogtay, MD, received his MD from BJ Medical College in India in 1986 where he also received formal training in pathology and neuropathology. Subsequently, Dr. Gogtay spent 8 years in basic neuroscience research at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Sydney University in Australia, and later at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, before joining Psychiatry Residency at Cornell. He joined the Child Psychiatry Branch in 2000 and is currently a staff physician working on the childhood onset schizophrenia project. Dr. Gogtay's primary interest is in studying the normal and abnormal brain development, along with the clinical phenomenology and neurobiology of childhood onset psychotic disorders.

Deanna Greenstein, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist. She is currently working on both the ADHD and Childhood Onset Schizophrenia projects.

Rhoshel Lenroot, MD, is a Clinical Fellow who did her training in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico.  She is using multimodal imaging techniques to study normal and abnormal brain development.

Rachel Miller, LCSW, PhD, is a Research Social Worker with a degree from Adelphi University . She has 13 years experience with NIMH sponsored studies of first episode schizophrenia and is the author of numerous publications focusing on the psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia. Dr. Miller joined our staff in 2007.

Cara Rabin, BA, is a 2007 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated with honors in Health and Societies and Bioethics. As a Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Recipient, she studies functional and anatomical neuroimaging of children with ADHD and genetic risk factors for the development of childhood onset schizophrenia. Cara plans to pursue a joint M.D./M.P.H. in the future.

Judith L. Rapoport, MD, is Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. She did her clinical and research training at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Boston), Children's Hospital (DC), and the Karolinska Hospital (Stockholm). Her research has focused on diagnosis in child psychiatry, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Over the past decade, her group has been studying the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia. She is an author or coauthor of over 300 scientific papers, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Wendy Sharp, LCSW-C, is a Research Social Worker with a degree from Howard University. She specializes in ADHD and has been with the Child Psychiatry Branch since 1995.

Julia Tossell, M.D., a Staff Clinician, is a graduate of Radcliffe College and the George Washington University School of Medicine. She did her adult psychiatry residency at George Washington University, and her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Children's National Medical Center. She is board certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Dr. Tossell is responsible for the clinical care of the child subjects enrolled in inpatient research protocols. These protocols focus on the treatment of childhood-onset schizophrenia with atypical antipsychotic medications. She is also involved in ongoing outpatient studies of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Klinefelter Syndrome.

Catherine Vaituzis is a Psychology Technician currently measuring brain anatomy on MRI scans. She has an AA degree from Montgomery College and has been at NIMH for 40 years. She has been trained by many leading scientist in the field. She is currently working on the collaboration with UCLA.

Samantha White is a 2006 graduate from Emory University, where she earned a BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. She currently works as a Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award recipient in the Unit on Brain Imaging.  She coordinates the study of genetics in childhood development.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government. NIH is a component of theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services.