Stephen Faraone

Education and career

Faraone graduated in 1978 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BA in Psychology. He then went to the University of Iowa where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Faraone completed a postdoctoral clinical psychology internship and a research fellowship at Brown University. His post-doctoral mentor was Ming T. Tsuang.

After completing his post-doctoral fellowship at Brown, Faraone came to the Harvard Department of Psychiatry, where he began a career in psychiatric genetics. He first served as an instructor in 1985, and as an assistant professor in 1989. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993 and Full Professor in 2002. In 2004, he moved to SUNY Upstate Medical University where he is now Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology. He is also Senior Scientific Advisor to the Research Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Faraone has been principal investigator on several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute studying the nature, causes and treatment of ADHD. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the genetics of psychiatric disorders and has also made substantial contributions to research in psychopharmacology and research methodology. He led the International Consensus Statement on ADHD, and heads The ADHD Evidence Project, which curates evidence-based information about ADHD.

Faraone is a member of the European ADHD Guidelines Group (EAGG) and has founded the ADHD Molecular Genetics Network and the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders.