James Frederick Leckman MD

Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry

---

Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Office of International Medical Student Education

Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program

Global Health Initiative: Women & Child Health

Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration: Collaborators

MacMillan Center: Middle East Studies

Child Study Center: Tourette’s Syndrome & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders | NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program

Pediatrics

Psychiatry: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Research Clinic

---

Biography

James F. Leckman, M.D. is the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at Yale. He served as the Director of Research for the Yale Child Study Center from 1983 to 2010. Dr. Leckman is a well known child psychiatrist and patient-oriented clinical investigator. His peers have regularly selected him as one of the Best Doctors in America. Dr. Leckman is the author or co-author of over 300 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals, seven books, and 120 book chapters. In 2002, he was identified by American Society for Information, Science and Technology as a “Highly Cited Researcher” - one of the world's most cited authors in Psychology and Psychiatry – in the top half of the top one percent of all publishing researchers.

In 1999, he edited with Dr. Donald J. Cohen, Tourette's Syndrome: Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions - Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Care, published by John Wiley&Sons. Given its success, this volume was re-issued in paper back in the fall of 2001. More recently, Dr. Leckman edited (along with Andres Martin, Lawrence Scahill and Dennis Charney) a 56-chapter volume, entitled, Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice published in October of 2002 by Oxford University Press. In November 2002, an invited review article on Tourette’s syndrome appeared in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. Other recent editorials have appeared in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2011), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2011), Neuropsychopharmacology (2011), and the British Medical Journal (2012).