Jeremy Veenstra Vanderweele, MD

Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele is the Suzanne Crosby Murphy Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), and Columbia University; and Co-Director of both the NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Translational Research in Child Psychiatric Disorders and the Whitaker Scholar Program in Developmental Neuropsychiatry at NYSPI/Columbia University Medical Center. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools to pursue new treatments for autism and pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele’s laboratory at Columbia University and NYSPI focuses on the serotonin and glutamate systems in genetic mouse models with abnormal social or repetitive/compulsive-like behavior. His research program at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Center for Autism and the Developing Brain (CADB) studies potential treatments for autism and related genetic syndromes. Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele has received multiple awards, including the Blanche Ittelson Award for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association. He is dedicated to helping train and develop the next generation of child psychiatrists and scientists who can improve understanding of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders and deliver new treatments to the clinic.