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Gabrielle A Carlson

Gabrielle A Carlson, MD

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Child 2-12
  • Adolescent 12-21

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

About Gabrielle A Carlson

About

Dr. Carlson’s goal is to improve the quality of care for children and adolescents with psychiatric illnesses by providing a thorough diagnostic assessment. That is the first step in effective treatment and one which requires time, thought and expertise.

Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., has been professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1985. She founded and directed the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry until 2013. Dr. Carlson specializes in childhood psychopathology and psychopharmacology in general, and the subjects of childhood and adolescent depression and bipolar disorder, specifically. She has written over 300 papers and chapters on those subjects. Her research interests include the phenomenology, long term follow up and treatment of young people with bipolar disorder, and the relationship between behavior disorders, like ADHD, developmental disorders and mood disorders. 

Dr. Carlson has consistently been listed in the Castle-Connelly “Best Doctors”. She has won numerous awards including the APAs Blanche F. Ittleson Award for research in child and adolescent psychiatry and the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  She is especially proud of the Virginia Q Anthony Outstanding Woman Leader Award given by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Carlson is past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, was Program Chair for four years for American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is now its recent Past President. Her presidential initiative has been on Impairing Emotional Outbursts: What are they, who has them, and what can be done about them.

Academic Title

Professor of Psychiatry

Publications

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Locations

  1. Stony Brook Psychiatric Associates - Child
    • Stony Brook South Campus, Putnam Hall, 1 St Univ of NY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Expertise

Education

  • Residency: National Institute of Mental Health - St Elizabeth's Hospital, Psychiatry, 1972
  • Internship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, Psychiatry, 1970
  • Medical School: Weill Cornell Medical College, 1968

Board Certifications

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1978
  • Psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1975

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