About Professor Faraone

Stephen Vincent Faraone, PhD graduated in 1978 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BA in Psychology. He then went to the University of Iowa where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Faraone completed a postdoctoral clinical psychology internship and a research fellowship at Brown University.  

After completing his post-doctoral fellowship at Brown, Dr. Faraone came to the Harvard Department of Psychiatry, where he began a career in psychiatric genetics. He first served as an instructor in 1985, and as an assistant professor in 1989. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 2002. In 2004 he moved to SUNY Upstate Medical University where he is now Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology.

Dr. Faraone has authored over 1000 journal articles, editorials, chapters, and books and was the eighth highest producer of High Impact Papers in Psychiatry from 1990 to 1999 as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). From 2019 to 2023, his citation metrics placed him in the top 0.01% of scientists across all fields.  In 2024, expertscape.com rated him as the top expert in ADHD and Disruptive Behavior Disorders, worldwide and scholargps.com rated him as the top cited author in the area of ADHD.

In 2002, Dr. Faraone was inducted into the CHADD Hall of Fame in recognition of outstanding achievement in medicine and education research on attention disorders.  In 2009 he was awarded Alumni Fellow status at the University of Iowa in recognition of his outstanding contributions to society and his profession. In 2010 he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York.  In 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and in 2019 he received the Paul Hoch Award from the American Psychopathological Association.

Support for creating The ADHD Evidence Project was provided by individual donations and unrestricted educational grants from Supernus, Tris, Noven and Corium. The International Consensus Statement was not supported by any funding agency. It was made possible by donations of time and effort by each author.