This lecture was supported by Grant Number 6H79FG000999-01M001 from SAMHSA. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of SAMHSA.  

About the speaker

Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1985, she founded and directed the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry until 2013.  Completing a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA, she taught on the faculty and joined AACAP as an early career psychiatrist.  

Dr. Carlson’s research interest has been in the phenomenology and treatment of mood disorders in children (bipolar disorder, depression, and recently mood dysregulation) and the relationship between behavior disorders, like ADHD, developmental disorders and mood disorders.  She has written over 300 papers and chapters on those subjects.  Her AACAP presidential initiative addressed impairing emotional outbursts in youth. 

Dr. Carlson has served as AACAP’s Program Chair, Counselor-at-large and ultimately, AACAP president.  She has won numerous child psychiatry awards including the APA’s Blanche F. Ittleson Award for research, Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention, and the  American Psychopathological Association’s: Zubin Award, for playing a fundamental role in psychopathology research. Two especially treasured awards have been her Virginia Q Anthony Women’s Leadership Award, and the AACAP Catchers in the Rye Humanitarian Award. 

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Gabrielle A. Carlson, MD, reports being a researcher for the NIMH.  She will not discuss any commercial products or services. She will be discussing the off-label use of treatments as there are no FDA approved treatments for DMDD. All relationships have been mitigated through review. 

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Alfredo Sagisi, DNP, MS, RN, FACHE, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.