Professor
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dr. Saxe is the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and the Director of the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Saxe is a physician-scientist with a focus on the psychiatric consequences of traumatic events in children and on factors that contribute to children’s risk and resilience in the face of adversity. He is responsible for publishing some of the first studies of Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) in children, and on the bio-behavioral risk and resiliency factors in children exposed to traumatic events. He is the principal developer of Trauma Systems Therapy (TST), a treatment model for traumatized children that is currently used to guide clinical care in 14 states. He is also the Director of the Center for Coordinated Trauma Services in Child Welfare, a National Child Traumatic Stress Network academic center funded to improve trauma services for the nation’s child welfare systems. Dr. Saxe received his undergraduate degree from McGill University and his medical degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He completed residency training in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a fellowship in traumatic stress disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital in Boston.
