CONTACT INFORMATION

University of Illinois at Chicago
1747 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608

Office Phone: 312 355 3442

E-mail: fnajjar@psych.uic.edu

Assistant: Valerie Santiago, (312) 355 4462, VSantiago@psych.uic.edu

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Najjar F, Weller R, Weisbrot J, Weller E: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its Treatment in Children and Adolescents. Current Psychiatry Reports 2008, 10:104-108

Najjar F, Welch C, Grapentine WL, Sachs H, Siniscalchi J, Price LH: Trends in Psychotropic Drug Use in a Child Psychiatric Hospital from 1991 through 1998. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2004; Spring, 14 (1):87-93

Phillips KA, Najjar F. An open-label study of citalopram in body dysmorphic disorder. J Clin Psychiatry, Jun 2003 


IJR Faculty Member

Fedra Najjar, MD

Assistant Professor,
Medical Director, Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit

After Graduating from Child and Family Psychiatry fellowship program at Brown University I joined their faculty. My primary appointment was on the child/adolescent inpatient unit. In addition, I was involved in clinical research trials in the areas of Mood Disorders, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Currently, I am the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit, which is an inpatient unit at UIC hospital that treats severely mentally ill adolescents who are in DCFS Custody and who have failed several interventions. I am also involved in conducting clinical trials at IJR in the areas of Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Autism, and ADHD.

Affiliations/Memberships:

  • American Psychiatric Association ( APA)
  • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

Interests:

My interests are in inpatient treatment, severe mental illness, childhood trauma and its effect on development.