Biography
Eric Mick, ScD received his doctorate in psychiatric epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1999 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Research of the Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopathology and Adult ADHD and an associate faculty member in the Center for Human Genetic Research both of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Massachusetts. His research focuses on the relationship between mood and disruptive behavior disordersacross the lifecycle: particularly bipolar disorder in children and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. His publications include the largest family-based candidate gene studies of children with bipolar disorder and the first genome-wide pharmacogenetic study of methylphenidate therapy for ADHD.