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Carl Feinstein
Director of Clinical Services, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry

Carl Feinstein, MD, is Director of Clinical Services in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and, by courtesy, of pediatrics at the Medical Center.

Feinstein received his medical degree in 1968 from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn. He interned at the U.S. Public Health Hospital in New Orleans. In addition, he completed a psychiatry residency at the National Institute of Mental Health's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a child psychiatry residency at Children's Hospital National Medical Center and training at the Psychoanalytic Institute, all located in Washington, D.C. From 1977 through 1994 he held academic posts at George Washington University and Brown University. In 1995, he moved to the Johns Hopkins University, where he served as associate director of clinical services in the Department of Psychiatry at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Feinstein joined Stanford in December 1997.

Feinstein is a renowned child psychiatrist and an expert in biological, developmental and psychodynamic psychiatry in children, adolescents and especially the developmentally disabled. He has conducted pioneering studies of psychiatric disorders associated with blindness, deafness, mental retardation and chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, diabetes and arthritis.

Publications

E-mail: carl.feinstein@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 498-5246
Fax: (650) 723-5531