 | Dr. Matthew W. State |
Dr. Matthew W. State, newly appointed as the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry, investigates the genetic basis of child developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.
His current research focuses on Tourette's syndrome, obsessive/compulsive disorder, autism and related pervasive developmental disorders, and early-onset psychosis. He is currently the principal investigator for a study by a team of researchers from the Yale Child Study Center, the Department of Genetics and the Department of Neurobiology that aims to identify genes involved in developmental disorders and to characterize the expression and function of the identified genes. His numerous articles have focused on Prader-Willi Syndrome, Tourette's syndrome, mental retardation and childhood psychosis,
State earned his B.A. and M.D. from Stanford University. During medical school, he received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. He completed his internship at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where he won the Outstanding Critical Care Housestaff Award. He completed his residency at the University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he was chief resident and later was chief fellow. He earned a second Outstanding Teaching Award during his tenure there.
State came to the Yale Child Study Center as a postdoctoral researcher and doctoral student in 1997, earning his Ph.D. degree from the University's Department of Genetics in 2001. Since 1997, he has been an attending physician at the Child Study Center's Genetics and Development Clinic. He became an assistant professor of child psychiatry in 2001 and was named an assistant professor of genetics a year later. An attending physician in the Department of Psychiatry's Behavioral Genetics Clinic since 2002, State is also an investigator at the Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics and an assistant professor in the Yale Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program.
State is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the Southern California Psychiatric Society, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Connecticut Psychiatric Society. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is a member of the scientific advisory board of Cure Autism Now in Los Angeles and of the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange's steering committee.
T H I S
Dr. State has been designated
Harris Assistant Professor
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