Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Executive Director, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
2825 50th St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
E-mail:  robert.hendren@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Dr. Hendren's curriculum vitae    

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 a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is board certified in General as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Hendren completed his residency in general psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and a two-year fellowship in child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center in 1981. 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 100 publications on topics in his field including 4 books. Dr. Hendren has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America”, each year since it was published in 1998. He takes an active leadership role in various local, state and national organizations and committees and frequently speaks at national and international conferences and symposiums.

B.A.	Psychology, University of Utah, 1971
D.O.	Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1975

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