Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
Sunbury, Ohio
L. Eugene Arnold, M.Ed., M.D. is a board-certified child & adolescent psychiatrist. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Ohio State University, where he was formerly director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and vice-chair of psychiatry, and was recently interim director of the Nisonger Center university center of excellence in developmental disabilities. He graduated from Ohio State University College of Medicine summa cum laude, interned at University of Oregon, and took residencies at Johns Hopkins, where he earned the M.Ed., and served in the U.S. Public Health Service. He has 45 years’ experience in child psychiatric treatment research, including the multi-site NIMH Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (“the MTA”), for which he was executive secretary and chair of the steering committee. For his work on the MTA he received the NIH Director’s Award. He was co-investigator for the OSU site of the Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology Autism Network, for which he chaired the steering committee. He has a particular interest in alternative and complementary treatments for ADHD. He undertook the NIMH-funded multi-site double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial of neurofeedback at the request of ChADD. His publications include 9 books, 70 chapters, and 300 articles.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST