John T. Walkup, MD is Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
Dr. Walkup has been involved in a number of the large definitive clinical treatment trials for childhood psychiatric disorders including the Treatment of Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS), Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS); the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics Study (CBITS); the Treatment of Early Age Mania study (TEAM) and the Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (TASA).
He has been funded for large projects working with American Indian tribes in the Southwest United States. "Cradling our Future," funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, is a clinical trial of an in-home intervention delivered by Native American paraprofessionals to pregnant teens. A second project is "Celebrating Life and Empowering our Spirits" a SAMHSA sponsored suicide prevention study funded under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act. Additionally, Dr. Walkup has won a number of awards and honors. In 2009, he received the Charlotte and Norbert Reiger Award for Scientific Achievement from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Walkup is Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the USA Tourette Syndrome Association and serves on the Scientific Advisory boards of the Trichotillomania Learning Center and the Anxiety Disorder Association of America. Dr. Walkup is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on mood and anxiety disorders. His interests are focused on Tourette's syndrome, psychopharmacology, and community-based participatory research with American Indian communities.
