Titles:
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director, Dyslexia Center
Director, Clinical Trials, The UCSF Center for ASD & NDDs
Dr. Robert L. Hendren, D.O., took his residency in general psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. He is board certified in General as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has been on the faculty at the George Washington University School of Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University) - Robert Wood Johnson and New Jersey Medical Schools. From 2001-2009, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director and Tsakopoulos-Vismara Chair at the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders). His current areas of research and publication interests are translational interventional research including clinical pharmacology, nutraceutical and nutritional trials using biomarkers (MRI, measures of inflammation, oxidative stress, immune function and pharmacogenomics) to enhance resilience in neurodevelopmental disorders. He is currently applying this targeted outcomes research focus in a collaborative project with the Oak Hill School for youth with severe autism and neurodevelopmental spectrum disorders in San Anselmo, CA.
Dr. Hendren is also past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2007-2009). He has published over 100 scientific papers and 5 books and has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America”, each year since it was first published in 1996.