Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Putnam Hall-South Campus
Stony Brook, NY
Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., has been professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1985. She founded and directed the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry until 2013. Dr. Carlson specializes in childhood psychopathology and psychopharmacology in general, and the subjects of childhood and adolescent depression and bipolar disorder, specifically. She has written over 280 papers and chapters on those subjects and has co-authored two books.
Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., has been professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1985. She founded and directed the division until 2013. She did her undergraduate training at Wellesley and subsequently obtained her MD degree from Cornell University Medical College. She did her adult psychiatry training at Washington University in St. Louis and at the National Institute of Mental Health. She completed a fellowship and research fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA where she subsequently taught on the faculty.
Dr. Carlson specializes in childhood psychopathology and psychopharmacology in general, and the subjects of childhood and adolescent depression and bipolar disorder, specifically. She has written over 300 papers and chapters on those subjects. Her research interests include the phenomenology, long term follow up and treatment of young people with bipolar disorder, and the relationship between behavior disorders, like ADHD, developmental disorders and mood disorders.
Dr. Carlson has served on many national committees including the DSM IV Task Force on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders, Institute of Medicine committees, and various review committees for the National Institute of Mental Health. She has been named in Best Doctors in America and New York, and Good Housekeepings Best Mental Health Experts.
She has won numerous awards including the APAs Blanche F. Ittleson Award for research in child and adolescent psychiatry and the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychopathological Association: Zubin Award, for an individual who has played a fundamental role in psychopathology research and the University of Missouris lifetime achievement award. She is especially proud of the Virginia Q Anthony Outstanding Woman Leader Award given by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Locally she was given the New York Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrys Hulse Award and the New York Advisory Councils Lauretta Bender Award.
Dr. Carlson is past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, was Program Chair for four years for American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is now its recent Past President. Her presidential initiative has been on Impairing Emotional Outbursts: What are they, who has them, and what can be done about them.
