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Posts by Joseph Biederman, MD

Biography

Joseph Biederman, MD, deceased, was chief of the Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, director of the Alan and Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Biederman was board certified in general and child psychiatry.

Dr. Biederman has been a mentor to more than 15 junior investigators in the field. He was on the editorial board of multiple journals, a reviewer for many psychiatric journals and served as a grant reviewer in the Child Psychopathology and Treatment Review Committee of the NIMH. Dr. Biederman was the author and co-author over 800 scientific articles, 650 scientific abstracts and 70 book chapters.

In October 2007, Dr. Biederman was ranked as the second highest producer of high-impact papers in psychiatry overall throughout the world by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The same organization ranked Dr. Biederman at #1 in terms of total citations to his papers published on ADD/ADHD in the past decade. In 2014, Thompson Reuters named Dr. Biederman to their list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, as ranking in the top 1% by citations for the field of psychiatry. Dr. Biederman's work was supported by multiple federal and pharmaceutical industry grants.