Dr. Jensen is the Director of the Center for the Advancement
of Children’s Mental Health—Putting Science to Work, and Ruane Professor
of Child Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Before coming to Columbia University, Dr. Jensen was the Associate
Director of Child and Adolescent Research at the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH). While at NIMH Dr. Jensen served as the lead NIMH
investigator on the six-site NIMH and Department of Education-funded study
of Multimodal Treatment of ADHD (the MTA Study), and also as an
investigator on other NIMH multi-site studies.
Dr. Jensen received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham
Young University, graduating Cum Laude with high honors, his medical degree
from George Washington University Medical School. He did his post-graduate
training at the Letterman Army Medical Center and the University of California,
San Francisco.
He serves on many editorial and scientific advisory boards
(including the CH.A.D.D. Professional Advisory Board), is the author of
over 150 scientific articles and book chapters, and has co-edited three
books on children’s mental health research.
Dr. Jensen has received many national awards, including
the Norbert Reiger Award (1990 and 1996) from the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award (1996) and the
Blanche Ittelson Award (1998) from the American Psychiatric Association,
and Special Recognition Awards from the American Psychological Association
and the Association for Child Psychiatric Nursing. In 1999 he received
the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mental
Ill and was inducted into the CHADD Hall of Fame. Last year (2000), he
received the Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award from the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for ADHD research.
