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DISCOVERY AND WELLNESS
CENTER FOR CHILDREN

Department of Psychiatry

 
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Meet Our Director, Robert L. Findling, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Director, Discovery & Wellness Center for Children at Case School of Medicine

Co-Director, Bipolar Disorder Research Center

Since 1992/Full Time
Appointments: 216-844-3455
Robert.Findling@UHhospitals.org

Dr. Findling is the Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Findling earned his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and went to medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Findling did a joint residency-training program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is board certified in all three specialties.

Dr. Findling’s research endeavors have focused on pediatric psychopharmacology and psychotic disorders in the young. He has extensive experience in pharmacokinetic studies of psychotropic agents in pediatric patients. Dr. Findling has been honored with numerous awards and has received international recognition as a clinical investigator. Dr. Findling is currently the principal investigator of a Stanley Medical Research Institute Clinical Research Center that is examining novel interventions early in the course of juvenile bipolar illness. In collaboration with Joseph Calabrese, M.D., Dr. Findling is the co-Principal Investigator on an NIMH developing center grant that is focusing on the treatment of bipolar disorder across the life span. Dr. Findling’s research is also supported in part from the NIH, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the St. Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio and the pharmaceutical industry.