Jay giedd biography

Academic Title	Affiliation	Major Area(s) of Study
Professor	UCSD	Behavioral Medicine / Neuropsychology
	Phone	Address
jgiedd@health.ucsd.edu	858-822-5214	9500 Gilman Drive / MC 0949 / La Jolla, CA 92093

Website

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/About/faculty/Pages/jay-giedd

Graduate Institution

University of North Dakota Medical School

Research Description

Jay N.

Giedd, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego.

My research focus is to explore the path, mechanisms, and influences on brain development in health and illness through longitudinal studies.

Jay Giedd is chief of Brain Imaging at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, where he is using magnetic resonance imaging to.

Bio.

Giedd is a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Mental Health.

He was named the Chief of the Brain Imaging Section in He is currently professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

In addition, he is an adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Department of Family and Reproductive Medicine. Over the past 25 years Dr. Giedd has combined brain imaging, genetics, and behavioral analysis to explore the path and influences of brain development in health and illness.

As one of the most highly cited neuroscientists of his generat