Kenneth E. Towbin, M.D., is Chief of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Intramural Research Program at NIMH. Dr. Towbin has extensive and diverse experience in child and adolescent psychiatry. He received his A.B. from Cornell University and his M.D. from University of Colorado. He completed his General Psychiatry Residency training at Yale University, and his fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. He also completed a two-year clinical psychiatric research fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.Dr. Towbin was on the faculty at the Yale Child Center as an Associate Professor and became the Associate Director of Training and Clinical Director at Riverview Hospital for Children. During this time Dr. Towbin developed expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with severe childhood-onset disorders including Pervasive Developmental Spectrum Disorders, Tourette’s Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Childhood Psychoses. In 1993 Dr. Towbin came to Children’s National Medical Center (Washington DC) to become the Director of Residency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and shortly thereafter became Medical Director of the Complex Developmental Disorders Team at DC Children’s.

      Dr. Towbin has authored extensively on the diagnosis and treatment of Tourette’s Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Autism Spectrum disorders. His current research interests include phenomenology and treatment of childhood Bipolar Disorders, multiple complex developmental disorder, and emotional dysregulation in children and adolescence, and disorders in the spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders.

      Dr. Towbin is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, in both General Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He enjoys membership in the American Psychiatric Association, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He also is on the medical advisory board of the DC-Maryland Tourette’s Syndrome Association and a member of the CORE advisory Committee of the Ivymount School. Dr. Towbin is also Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

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