James Edward Swain, MD, PhD

Dr. Swain is a clinician-scientist - the inpatient medical director of child psychiatry and a biological psychiatry researcher. As a clinician, he is interested in preventing and treating acute mental illness among children with special attention to parenting and early childhood. As a researcher, he studies the brain-basis of parent-infant bond formation and child outcome as a function of mental health problems and solutions for issues such as depression, anxiety, the chronic effects of stress and poverty and finally psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments.