Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review (PDF)

Hong Shen, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. As a community-based academic child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Shen provides mental health services in a variety of settings. He gained extensive clinical trial research experience at the UC Davis MIND Institute. He also has special interests in cross-cultural psychiatry. He is actively involved in child and adolescent resident training, general psychiatry resident training, and medical student education amongst his other academic commitments.

Robert L. Hendren, DO, is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His primary areas of research and publication interests are translational clinical pharmacology and nutritional trials using biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, ADHD, schizophrenia spectrum disorder, and impulse control disorders. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications on topics in his field, including five books, many book chapters, and solicited papers. He is Past President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and has an active leadership role in various local, state, and national organizations and committees.