Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is the Suzanne Crosby Murphy Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry and the Division Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, and New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools in the pursuit of new treatments for autism spectrum disorder and pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Prior to joining the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia in 2014, Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele was Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he was also an associate professor and medical Director for the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder and received the Vanderbilt University Chancellor's Award for Research. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Blanche Ittelson Award for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is dedicated to helping train and develop the next generation of child psychiatrists and scientists who can generate an improved understanding of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders and deliver new treatments to the clinic. He currently serves as the interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and interim Director at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.