Andrés Martin, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry
Director of Medical Studies Yale Child Study Center
Medical Director Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Research Interests

In the clinical domain, Dr. Martin primarily serves as medical director of the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service (CPIS). The wellbeing and smooth operation of the CPIS is integral to the clinical mission of the Yale Child Study Center. The CPIS serves children with serious neuropsychiatric impairments and represents a crucial interface between the YCSC and Yale-New Haven Hospital. In addition to ensuring its clinical function and providing the highest level of clinical care, the CPIS has evolved into a model training facility for house staff and medical students.

In the training and education spheres, Dr. Martin serves as associate training director for the traditional child and adolescent psychiatry program, and helped in the development of an innovative integrated program that has attracted national attention and been already replicated at one other teaching institution. Together with James F. Leckman, the YCSC's director of research, Dr. Martin has obtained federal training infrastructure funding from the NIMH to support this model program. Aside from his involvement in the post- doctoral residency training, Dr. Martin has focused on teaching and mentorship for Yale and visiting medical students. The mentorship program in child psychiatry that he has been centrally involved in developing at Yale has come to be seen as a useful and transportable model that has been since replicated at five other institutions across the nation, as well as in yearly international conferences.

In the scholarly domain, Dr. Martin is a co-investigator in two federally funded grants (in addition to the R25 training grant, an R01 from NIMH looking at costs associated with autism), and in two others currently under review (an R01 to study the impact of black box warnngs on antidepressant use, and and a four-site collaborative R01 to evaluate child and family outcomes after inpatient stays). In addition to producing scholarly works, Dr. Martin has served as an organizer and disseminator of information in child and adolescent psychiatry. His work includes serving as consulting editor for a quarterly monograph series and co-editing two monographs and three books (two of which are the recognized standard textbooks in the field). Dr. Martin was appointed in June of 2006 as the sixth editor of the prestigious Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a five- to ten-year appointment that will commence with the January 2008 issue. With an impact factor of 4.1 and a monthly circulation of 9,000 copies, the Journal s the leader among scholarly publications in child and adolescent psychiatry in the world today.

Relevant Links

• Consulting Editor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
• Editor-Elect, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Recent Publications

• Martin, A., Scahill, L., Charney, D., Leckman, J.F. (Editors): Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
• Martin, A., Leslie, D.: Psychiatric inpatient, outpatient and medication utilization and costs among privately insured youths, 1997–2000. American Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 160(4), 757-764
• Martin, A., Leslie, D.: Trends in Psychotropic Medication Costs for Children and Adolescents, 1997 – 2000. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2003; 157(10): 997-1004
• Martin, A., Young, C. Leckman, J.F., Mukonoweshuro, C., Rosenheck, R., and Leslie, D.: Age effects on antidepressant–induced manic conversion. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2004; 158(8): 773-780
• Martin, A.: Ignition Sequence: On Mentorship. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2005; 44(12): 1225-1229
• Blair, J., Scahill, L., State, M., Martin, A.: Electrocardiographic changes in children and adolescents treated with ziprasidone: a prospective study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2005; 44(1): 73-79
• Sukhodolsky, D., Cardona, L., Martin, A.: Characterizing aggressive and noncompliant behaviors in a children's psychiatric inpatient setting. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 2005; 36(2): 177-193
• Greene, R.W., Ablon, J.S., Martin, A.: Use of collaborative problem solving to reduce seclusion and restraint in child and adolescent inpatient units. Psychiatric Services 2006; 57(5): 610-612
• Martin, A., Bostic, J.Q. (Guest Editors): Psychopharmacology. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2006; 15(1)Martin, A., King, R.A. (Editors): Life Is with Others: Selected Papers on Child Psychiatry by Donald J. Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press 2006
• Martin, A., Bloch, M., Pruett, K., Stubbe, D., Belitsky, R., Ebert, M., Leckman, J.F.: From too little too late to early and often: child psychiatry education during medical school (and before and after). Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2007; 16(1)(in press)
• Martin, A., Volkmar, F.R.: Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fourth Edition. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2007 (in press)

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

E-mail
andres.martin@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-688-6016

Fax
203-688-6859