Full Name
Steve Faraone
Credentials
PhD
Job Title
Distinguished Professor
Company
Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Speaker Bio (200 words)
Stephen Faraone is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Research Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He studies the nature and causes of ADHD across the lifespan. An author on over 1000 journal articles, editorials, chapters and books, in 2005, from 2014 to 2023 he has been listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. From 2019 to 2022, his citation metrics placed him in the top 0.01% of scientists across all fields (https://bit.ly/3j3NjEG; http://bit.ly/3Gq9j8j). In 2021, expertscape indicated he was the top-rated expert in ADHD, worldwide (https://bit.ly/3j9n8w2). In 2024, he was their top-rated expert for neurodevelopmental disorders (https://bit.ly/3DpVAva). As of March 2025, his publications have been cited 154,519 times leading to a lifetime H-Index of 193 (scholargps.com). He disseminates evidence-based information via www.ADHDevidence.org. In 2002, he was inducted into the CHADD Hall of Fame for outstanding achievement in medicine and education research on attention disorders. In 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and in 2019 he received the Paul Hoch Award from the American Psychopathological Association.
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