Dr. Waxmonsky is the Division Chief of Child Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hershey Medical Center, the University Chair in Child Psychiatry at Penn State and Professor of Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. He completed medical school and general psychiatry residency training at SUNY Buffalo and child fellowship at MGH. Over the past 25 years, he has worked in academics, with a clinical, research and teaching focus on ADHD. His research centers on the integration of medication and behavioral interventions targeting both children and their parents to improve the efficacy and tolerability of ADHD treatments. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles or book chapters and served as a PI or CoI on over 40 different research trials with funding from NIH, industry and private foundations. He was recently awarded the AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder for his study examining the growth effects of CNS stimulants. His current research focuses on the neural and environmental triggers for temper outbursts in youth with ADHD and neural mechanisms by which CNS stimulants improve irritability and aggression in youth with ADHD. He runs a clinical practice that provides assessment, psychosocial and pharmacological treatment services for ADHD across the lifespan. He also serves as a regional medical director for Pennsylvania’s Child Psychiatry Access Program where he has studied efforts to improve engagement with ADHD treatments in the primary care setting.