STEWART ADELSON

Stewart Adelson, M.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of adult, child, and adolescent psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow and the Founding Director of the Youth Equity Science/YES Project of Yale Public Health and Law Schools, a collaboration of youth mental health researchers and legal scholars to support policy and law that support LGBTQ youth mental health. He is the recipient of AACAP’s 2021 Norbert & Charlotte Rieger Service Award for Program Excellence for the YES Project as an innovative program that addresses prevention of mental illnesses in children and adolescents and serves as model program; the NY Council on Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s 2022 Wilfred C. Hulse Award for outstanding contributions to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry; and a 2015 Commendation from the Harvard Medical School Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program. He has served as lead author of practice guidelines of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, the American College of Psychiatrists, and the Advisory Committee of the Global LGBT Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.

 

Wednesday, May 22, 2024