John T. Walkup, MD is the Chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and current President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Dr. Walkup’s work covers three main areas of innovation and investigation. His work with movement disorders, specifically Tourette syndrome, uniquely spans psychiatry, child psychiatry, and neurology.  His expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry clinical trials focuses on the development and evaluation of psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments and lastly, he has been involved in developing and evaluating interventions to reduce the large mental health disparities facing Native American youth, specifically drug use and suicide prevention. 

Over his career, Dr. Walkup has been awarded over $35 million in grants and contracts to support his research. Including current funding from Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute and the Kellogg Foundation.