United States / Bipolar Disorder Category

Title of Winning Proposal: Juvenile Bipolar Disorder: Making the Diagnosis.

Cathryn A. Galanter, M.D.
Post-Graduate Child Psychiatry
Research Fellow
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Dr. Galanter, a Post-Graduate Child Psychiatry Research Fellow at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, studies the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder in children. She has examined how children with ADHD and manic symptoms respond to stimulants, and whether ADHD youths are at increased risk for developing adult bipolar disorder. She is developing

methods for improving physician medical education and helping physicians apply research advances to clinical practice. With this award she will use decision-making research to study how child psychiatrists diagnose bipolar disorder.

After earning her undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania and her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, she completed General and Child Psychiatry Residencies at Columbia University. She is active in the American Psychiatric Association and is the Founding Chair of the Shire/APA Child Psychiatry Fellowship. She also serves on the Board of the New York Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Work Group on Consumer Issues. She has received many national awards including APA's Lilly Resident Research Award and Aventis Travel Fellowship for Women Residents in Psychiatry and AACAP's Charter Behavioral Fellowship and Lilly Pilot Award.

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