| Ellen Leibenluft, M.D.,
Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is Chief of the Unit on Affective Disorders in the Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Leibenluft received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Stanford University. After completing residency training at Georgetown University Hospital, she served on the faculty there as director of the psychiatric inpatient unit and day hospital. She then came to the NIMH, where she conducted research on bipolar disorder.In particular, her publications focus on rapid cycling bipolar disorder (a severe form of the illness) and on the role of the sleep-wake cycle in the illness. She has also written and spoken widely on gender differences in the prevalence and symptomatology of mood disorders.She is now actively involved in research on bipolar disorder in children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on differences between children and adults in the presentation of the illness; neural mechanisms underlying the symptoms of the illness; and the development of new treatment strategies for early-onset bipolar disorder Dr. Leibenluft has served as President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and as Chair of the Research Training Committee and a member of the Council on Research of the American Psychiatric Association. She has served on NIMH committees, including the Fellowship Training Committee and the Consortium on Women’s Mental Health, and has participated in a number of professional advisory groups, including the NIMH prepubertal bipolar disorder working group. She has served as a consultant and reviewer for grants from the NIMH and pharmaceutical industry. Her awards include the Distinguished Psychiatrist Award of the American Psychiatric Association, a Special Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, the Virginia Tarlow Memorial Lectureship at Northwestern University and a Visiting Professorship at the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University School of Medicine. |
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