Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Medical Education
B.A.: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1984
Medical Degree: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988
Residency: Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1990
Residency: Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1992
Fellowship: Child Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1993
Research Fellow: Psychiatric Epidemiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996
Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002-2013 (Best Doctors, Inc.)
Guardian Angel Award, Family Support Network, St. Louis, Missouri, 2008
Gubernatorial Appointment to the Mental Health Commission, State of Missouri. The Mental Health Commission is a 7-member panel appointed by the Governor of the State of Missouri to advise the Director of the Department of Mental Health on all phases of Departmental practice, 2003-2007
Child Advocate of the year, St. Louis Area Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2007
Editorial Responsibilities
Board Member
Journal of American Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Molecular Autism
Peer Reviewer
American Journal of Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Cerebral Cortex
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines
Reviewer
Archives of General Psychiatry
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Selected Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts
Constantino JN, Todorov A, Hilton C, Law P, Zhang Y, Molloy E, Fitzgerald R and Geschwind D. Autism recurrence in half siblings: strong support for genetic mechanisms of transmission in ASD. Mol Psychiatry. 2012 Feb 28 [Epub ahead of print].
Constantino JN. The quantitative nature of autistic social impairment. Pediatr Res. 2011 May 69(5Pt2):55R-62R. PMCID: PMC3086844
Constantino JN, Zhang Y, Frazier T, Abbacchi AM, Law P. Sibling recurrence and the genetic epidemiology of autism. Am J Psych. 2010 Nov 167(11): 1349-56.
Jonson-Reid M, Presnall N, Drake B, Fox L, Bierut L, Reich W, Kane P, Todd RD, Constantino JN. Effects of child maltreatment and inherited liability on antisocial development: an official records study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 Apr 49(4): 321–332.
Constantino JN, Chackes LM, Wartner UG, Gross M, Brophy SL, Vitale J, Heath AC. Mental representations of attachment in identical female twins with and without conduct problems. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 2006; 37(1):65-72.
Constantino JN, Todd RD. Autistic traits in the general population: a twin study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2003 May 60(5): 524-30.
Constantino, JN, Hashemi N, Solis E, Alon T, Haley S, McClure S, Nordlicht N, Constantino MA, Elmen J, Carlson VK. Supplementation of urban home visitation with a series of group meetings for parents and infants: results of a “real-world” randomized, controlled trial. Child Abuse Negl. 2001 Dec 25(12): 1571-81.
Clarke RA, Murphy DL and Constantino JN: Serotonin and externalizing behavior in young children. Psychiatry Research, 1999; 86:29-40.
Invited Publications
Constantino, JN. (2011). Autism as a Quantitative Trait. In: Amaral, D, Dawson, G & Geschwind, D Autism Spectrum Disorders. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 510-520.
Constantino, JN. (2011). Child Mental Health: Status of the Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Prevention. In: Cottler, LB Mental Health in Public Health: The Next 100 Years. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.. 199-210.
Constantino JN, Mattison RE: Adolescent issues, Adult Psychiatry, second edition, Rubin E and Zorumski C (editors) Blackwell Publishing, Random House, Inc. New York, NY, 2005 p. 364-373.
Constantino JN, Gruber CP (2005). The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) Manual. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. John N. Constantino