David Shaffer, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., is the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry (and Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), and former Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City.
Dr. Shaffer obtained his medical training in London. He qualified as a physician at University College, undertook his training in pediatrics at ...
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David Shaffer, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., is the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry (and Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics), and former Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City.
Dr. Shaffer obtained his medical training in London. He qualified as a physician at University College, undertook his training in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital.
At Maudsley, Shaffer conducted the first epidemiological study of child and early adolescent suicide using the psychological autopsy method. Unexpected—at the time—findings were the short delay between experiencing a stressor and the act of suicide, the frequency of aggressive behavior, and the suggestions that imitation played a role in youth suicide.
These findings would later be confirmed by his much larger controlled study in New York...
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