William C. Wood, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is the Unit Chief of the Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Service where he oversees a team that provides comprehensive psychiatric care to teenagers requiring intensive intervention and an inpatient level of care. In addition, through the Cornell Physicians Organization, Dr. Wood treats children, adolescents, and adults on an outpatient basis. He specializes in the early identification and treatment of mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder. He also performs comprehensive assessments to clarify the diagnoses of patients who have not responded favorably to treatment in the past, with particular emphasis on anxiety, attention, mood, and psychotic disorders. Based on the results of such an assessment, he collaborates with patients and their families to ensure that an optimal treatment plan is developed and put into practice.
Dr. Wood graduated with his M.D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed residencies in both General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Psychiatry program of Harvard Medical School. In his final year of the General Psychiatry program, he served as the Administrative Chief Resident for the MGH campus. He also served as Chief Resident during the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program. Dr. Wood returned to UCSF as a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellow to conduct research on how parent-infant interactions promote early childhood mental health. While at UCSF, he also completed the Advanced Training in Clinical Research program through the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Dr. Wood served for three years as a member of the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees. He is board-certified in both general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Wood joined the Cornell faculty in his current position in the summer of 2011.
