| Alan Zametkin, M.D.
Dr. Alan Zametkin is a Clinical Investigator in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. A native of Providence, R.I., Dr. Zametkin earned his bachelor’s degree at Amherst College and his medical degree at Brown University. He completed his internship in pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center, and his psychiatry residency at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine. After completing a fellowship at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC, he worked in Auckland, New Zealand, for a year as a consultant. Dr. Zametkin joined the National Institute of Mental Health in 1980 as a senior staff psychiatrist for the Child Psychiatry Branch. Eight years later, he became a senior staff psychiatrist for the Clinical Brain Imaging Section of NIMH. Dr. Zametkin received a personal Letter of Commendation by C.Everett Koop in 1997. In 2000 he was nominated to “the Brown Alumni 100 “ an award” for “the hundred alumni who . . . had the greatest influence on the twentieth century”. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and by the American Board of Child Psychiatry. He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published more than 75 professional articles and book chapters, including a series of 4 original papers in the New England Journal of Medicine. Because his research has been so widely positively publicized (front page of the New York Times and Washington Post) he was the first nominee to CHADD’s (national parent support group for parents of hyperactive children) “Hall of Fame in 1994”. |
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