Bennett Leventhal, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, The Center for Child Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience
Institute for Juvenile Research (M/C 747)
University of Illinois at Chicago
1747 W. Roosevelt Rd, Rm. 155, Chicago 60608
Phone: (312) 355-3026
E-mail: bll@uic.edu

Dr. Leventhal is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of several boards including the Citizens' Committee of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, and the Panel of Professional Advisors of the Autism Society of America. Dr. Leventhal is also been a member of that National Board of Medical Examiners and the Illinois State Medical Board. He has also served as a consultant and lecturer to numerous agencies and organizations, locally, nationally and abroad.

Dr. Leventhal is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emeritus, The University of Chicago. He has worked extensively in the areas of attention disorders, autism, community services, developmental disorders, genetics, juvenile justice and psychopharmacology. He is an active clinician, educator and investigator, as well as an academic and clinical administrator. The primary focus of his current work is on medical education, the diagnosis, etiology and treatment of early-onset childhood psychopathology, particularly autism/developmental disorders, and developing new strategies for mental health services delivery to youth, especially in community agencies such as the schools and the juvenile justice system.

Representative Publications

Kim YS, Leventhal BL , Koh Y-J, Boyce WT. Psychopathology of school bullying: A cause or a consequence? 51 st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Poster session, Washington , D.C. , USA . October, 2004.

Kim YS, Leventhal BL , Kim SJ, Kim BN, Cheon KA, Yoo HJ, Badner J, Cook EH. Transmission disequilibrium testing of DAT1 polymorphism in Korean ADHD. 51 st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Poster session, Washington , D.C. , USA . October, 2004.

Derivan AT, Leventhal BL , March J, Wolraich M, Zito JM. The ethical use of placebo in clinical trials involving children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 14, 2:169 174, 2004.

Treatment for Adolescent Depression Study (TADS) Team (2005). The treatment for adolescents with depression study (TADS): Demographic and clinical characteristics. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 28-40.

Kim Y-S, Koh Y-J, Leventhal BL . School bullying and suicidal risk in Korean middle school students. Pediatrics, 2005, 115:357-363.

Owley T, Leventhal BL Cook EH. EPS or Stereotypies? Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Vol. 15, 2:150-151, 2005.

Owley T, Walton L, Salt J, Guter Jr SJ, Winnega M, Leventhal BL , Cook EH. An open-label trial of Escitalopram in pervasive developmental disorders Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44-4, April 2005.

Wakschlag L, Leventhal BL , Briggs-Gowan M, Danis B, Keenan K, Hill C, Egger H, Cichette D, Carter A. Defining the “disruptive” in preschool behavior: What diagnostic observation can teach us. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, Vol 8, 3:183-201, September 2005.