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Judith L. Rapoport
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Scientific career
FieldsChild Psychiatry
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Childhood Onset Schizophrenia
InstitutionsNational Institute of Mental Health

Judith L. Rapoport M.D. is chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Her research focuses on diagnosis in child psychiatry, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Rapoport’s research group at NIMH also studies clinical phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia.

Rapoport is the author of the bestselling book, The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Plume, 1989), about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. [1]


Education[edit]

In 1955, Rapoport received her B.A. degree, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree in 1959 from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rapoport completed training at the National Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. and the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. She completed internships at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York, and psychiatric residencies at Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. She received additional research training at NIMH’s Laboratory of Psychology[2] in Bethesda, Maryland.


Career[edit]

Rapoport’s research group at NIMH studies the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia.

In 1984, Rapoport was named chief of NIMH’s Child Psychiatry Branch. In addition to her research at NIH, she holds academic appointments in psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine [3] and Georgetown University Medical School, both in Washington, D.C.

Rapoport is a member of a number of advisory committees of national professional medical organizations, including the National Anxiety Foundation and the American Psychopathological Association, for which she served as president. Since 1993, she has also served as a member of the scientific council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. [4] Rapoport has served on the editorial boards of Advances in Clinical Child Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and others.

She has also authored and coauthored several professional medical books, more than 300 scientific research papers, and more than 200 journal articles.


Honors[edit]

Rapoport is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rapoport’s honors and awards include the G. Burroughs Mider Lecture (NIH, 1993); the American Psychiatric Association Award for Research (1992); the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award (1991); the Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research (2002), awarded by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation) [5] [6]; the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience (2005), awarded by MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research[7]; and others.

Personal Life[edit]

Dr. Rapoport is married to Stanley I. Rapoport, M.D., a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging, whom she met at Harvard Medical School.[8].

Further Reading[edit]

  • “Thank Goodness for Uncle Sam and the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Program,” James F. Leckman, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2011, Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 851–853[9]
  • “NIMH Shows Off One of Its ‘Brightest Jewels,’” NIH Record, May 5, 2009 [10]
  • Interview, “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—History, Imaging, and Treatment: An Expert Interview With Judith L Rapoport, M.D.,” Medscape, April 30, 2007 [11]
  • “NIH Research Festival Session Features Bench-to-Bedside Success Stories,” NIH Record, November 12, 2002 [12]
  • “The Doubting War: Two Swarthmoreans have increased public awareness of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children,” Swarthmore Bulletin, March 2002[13]
  • “Sonya Live” segment on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, CNN, 1988[14]
  • Child Mind Institute video, “Judith Rapoport on Dimensional Research in Mental Illness” [15]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Rapoport, Judith L. (1989). The boy who couldn't stop washing : the experience & treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (1st ed. ed.). New York: New American Library. ISBN 0452263654. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ "National Institute of Mental Health's Laboratory of Psychology".
  3. ^ "Faculty Directory | The School of Medicine & Health Sciences | The George Washington University". www.gwumc.edu.
  4. ^ "Judith L. Rapoport, M.D."
  5. ^ "Judith L. Rapoport, M.D."
  6. ^ "Past Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners".
  7. ^ "Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT". mcgovern.mit.edu.
  8. ^ Kolberg, Rebecca (January–February 1995). "Intramural Bliss? Reflections On Mixing Science With Marriage". National Institutes of Health. The NIH Catalyst. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  9. ^ Leckman, James F. (September 2011). "Thank Goodness for Uncle Sam and the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Program". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 50 (9): 851–853. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2010.04.012. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |ref= (help)
  10. ^ Sisson, Kevin Lyn (May 15, 2009). "NIMH Shows Off One of Its 'Brightest Jewels'". The NIH Record. The National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  11. ^ "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—History, Imaging, and Treatment: An Expert Interview With Judith L Rapoport, M.D." www.medscape.com. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  12. ^ Garnett, Carla (November 12, 2002). "Delivering Progress to Patients, Festival Session Features Bench-to-Bedside Success Stories". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  13. ^ Ringel, Marcia (March 2002). "The Doubting War: Two Swarthmoreans have increased public awareness of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children" (PDF). Swarthmore College Bulletin. Swarthmore College. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  14. ^ "OCD Segment On "Sonya Live" With Dr. Judith Rappaport (NIMH) | © 1988 CNN". 12 October 2012.
  15. ^ "Judith Rapoport on Dimensional Research in Mental Illness". 25 June 2013.
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