Timothy E. Wilens, MD

Dr. Timothy Wilens is the Director of Substance Abuse Services in the Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wilens is consistently among the “Best of Boston” in Child/Adult Psychiatry and “The Best Doctors in America.” His research interests include the relationship among attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder and substance abuse, and the pharmacotherapy of ADHD and juvenile bipolar disorder across the lifespan. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, 55 book chapters and 180 abstracts and given presentations at national and international scientific meetings. Dr. Wilens is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Wilens earned his BS at the University of Michigan Honors College and his MD at the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his residence in child, adolescent, adult and addiction psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital under the auspices of Harvard Medical School.