Plenary Address: Casting a Wide Net to Nurture Mentally Healthy Children
Wednesday, October 24
4:15 – 6:00 p.m.
Robert L. Hendren, D.O.
President-Elect, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry
Executive Director, M.I.N.D. Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of California, Davis
Dr. Hendren’s residency in general psychiatry was at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship was at the Yale Child Study Center. He was the Director of Medical Student Education at the George Washington University School of Medicine until 1986, the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital at the University of New Mexico until 1996. From 1996 until 2001, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Director, Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson and New Jersey Medical Schools and Director, Behavioral Research and Training Institute at UMDNJ-University Behavioral HealthCare.
Dr. Hendren is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and will serve as its President from 2007-2009. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves on many national committees. He is board certified in general as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. His primary areas of research and publication interests are translational clinical pharmacology and nutritional trials using biomarkers (MRI, measures of inflammation, oxidative stress, immune function, and pharmacogenomics) in neurodevelopmental disorders such as pervasive developmental disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and impulse control disorders. He has over 80 original papers and four books in the field of psychiatry. He has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America,” each year since it was published in 1998.
AACAP Fellow Ronald Filippi, M.D., endowed the AACAP’s Karl Menninger, M.D. Plenary to honor his mentor, Karl Menninger, M.D. Dr. Filippi trained under Dr. Menninger, a man who impressed him with his commitment to nurturing early career psychiatrists, the Menninger Clinic, and the families he treated. Dr. Menninger was a member of the family that founded the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He wrote The Human Mind and The Crime of Punishment and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
