Authors

Robert Jaffe

Robbie Jaffe, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he is the Training Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Robbie teaches the psychiatrists of tomorrow as the Program Director for Mount Sinai's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Robbie runs a teaching clinic working with a team of fellows, psychologists, and social workers to help kids and teens with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and tics and Tourette's disorder. He is also the Director of the Tourette Association of America's Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai, where he researches novel treatments for Tourette's disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He has written chapters and given invited lectures on tic disorders and how they interact with anxiety, OCD, and ADHD.