Yale University, New Haven

Yale Child Study Center Yale University 230 South Frontage Road New Haven, CT 06520 Website link
Principal investigator Robert A King MD Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry Medical Director, Tourette’s/OCD Clinic at Yale Child Study Center Phone: (203) 785-5880 Email: robert.king@yale.edu
Co-Investigator: Thomas V. Fernandez, M.D. Phone: 203-785-5880 Email: thomas.fernandez@yale.edu

 

Institute Description

Short profile of group

Dr. Robert King is Medical Director of the Tourette’s/OCD/Anxiety Disorder Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center, where he is also Professor of Child Psychiatry. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and textbook chapters on Tourette’s and related disorders and is the author of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Practice Parameter on Assessment and Treatment of Childhood OCD.

Dr. Thomas Fernandez is a child and adult psychiatrist, psychiatric geneticist, and Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry. He is the recipient of government and private foundation research funding to uncover the genetic basis of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, including Tourette Syndrome, OCD, and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Fernandez also works clinically as a child psychiatrist in ongoing clinical trials for children with Tourette syndrome and as an attending in the Tic Disorder and OCD Clinic at Yale Child Study Center.