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After serving in the United States Air Force Dr.
Barkley obtained his Bachelor's Degree with Honors in
Psychology from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1973. He then attended Bowling Green
State University in Ohio where he received his Masters
Degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1977 in Clinical Psychology,
receiving the Distinguished Dissertation Award for his
research on the effects of medication on children with
ADHD. He then attended the Oregon Health Sciences University
for internship training in developmental, learning,
and behavioral disorders of children. Thereafter, in
1977, he joined the Department of Neurology at the Medical
College of Wisconsin (MCOW) and Milwaukee Children's
Hospital where he worked in the Child Neurology Division
and eventually founded the Neuropsychology Service at
MCOW. He served as its Chief and as Associate Professor
of Neurology until 1985. Dr. Barkley then relocated
to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where
he served as the Director of Psychology and as a Professor
of Psychiatry and Neurology (1985-2002). While there,
he established the research clinics for both child and
adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders. In
2003, Dr. Barkley relocated to the Charleston, SC area
where he became a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
at the Medical University of South Carolina. In 2005,
he joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry
at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse,
NY.
Dr. Barkley has been awarded a Diplomate (board
certification) in three specialties, these being Clinical
Psychology (ABPP), Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology,
and Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN, ABPP). He is a clinical
scientist, educator, and practitioner who has authored,
co-authored, or co-edited 20 books and clinical manuals.
He has published more than 200 scientific articles and
book chapters related to the nature, assessment, and
treatment of ADHD and related disorders (see Publications).
In 1993, he founded a bimonthly newsletter for clinical
professionals, The ADHD Report (Guilford Publications).
He has created seven professional videotapes on ADHD
and defiant children, three of which have won national
awards, including the 1992 and 1994 Golden Apple Award
for educational videos from the National Education Association.
Dr. Barkley has served on the editorial boards of 11
scientific journals and as a reviewer for numerous others.
He was the President of the Section of Clinical Child
Psychology, Division 12, of the American Psychological
Association (1988), and was President of the International
Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
(1991).
Dr. Barkley has presented more than 600 invited
workshops, public addresses, and scientific presentations
internationally, including Australia, New Zealand, Belgium,
Israel, Russia, Kenya, Venezuela, Sweden, Denmark, Norway,
Iceland, Finland, Spain, Italy, Canada, and Great Britain.
He has appeared on many nationally televised programs
to discuss topics pertaining to ADHD, including: Today
(NBC TV, August 1991), A Closer Look with Faith Daniels
(NBC TV, June 1991), and Good Morning America (ABC TV,
August 1992; June 1994; August, 1998); Eye-to-Eye with
Connie Chung (CBS TV, June 1994), 60 Minutes with Leslie
Stall (CBS-TV, November, 1995), Real Life (NBC-TV, March
& September 1996), Day & Date (February 1996),
Leeza with Leeza Gibbons (ABC-TV, March 1996), The Early
Show with Bryant Gumbel (CBS, Sept. 2000), the BBC (November,
2000), Frontline (PBS, April, 2001), Investigative Reports
(A & E, April, 2001) and on a variety of regional
radio and television programs throughout North America
and internationally. He also assisted the following
major magazines and newspapers, among others, with stories
on ADHD: Newsweek, Time, Scientific American, Newsday,
Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Parents Magazine, Woman’s
Day, Cosmopolitan, Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Washington Post, Washington Times, Detroit Free Press,
Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Charlotte Observer,
San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, and
Sydney Morning Herald.
He has received numerous awards over his career
for his work in ADHD and the field of psychology. In
1994, he received the Distinguished Contribution Award
from the American Association of Applied and Preventive
Psychology, and in 1996, he was awarded the C. Anderson
Aldrich Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics
for his research career in child development. In 1998,
he received the Award for Distinguished Contribution
to Research from the Section on Clinical Child Psychology,
(now Division 53) of the American Psychological Association.
In 2002, he received the Dissemination Award from the
Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Division
12, of the American Psychological Association for his
career long efforts to dispel misconceptions about ADHD
and to educate the public and other professionals about
the science of this disorder. And in 2005, he received
an award for distinguished service to the profession
of psychology from the American Board of Professional
Psychology.
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1973.
Distinguished Dissertation Award in Education
and the Social Sciences, Bowling Green State University,
Ohio, June 1978.
Letters of Commendation for superior performance
in the graduate program, Department of Psychology, Bowling
Green State University, Ohio, for academic years 1974-75
and 1975-76.
Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health,
in clinical psychology, Bowling Green State University,
Ohio, for three consecutive academic years, 1973-76.
Landsdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada, October 1980.
Psychology Research Award, Wisconsin Psychological
Association, 1984.
Honorable Mention, Cindy Award - 1992, Association
of Visual Communicators, for the videotape ADHD: What
Do We Know?, produced with Kevin Dawkins Productions
and Guilford Publications.
Golden Apple Award (1993), National Education
and Film Video Association for the videotapes ADHD:
What Do We Know? and ADHD: What Can We Do?, produced
with Kevin Dawkins Productions and Guilford Publications.
Golden Apple Award (1995), National Education
and Film Video Association for the videotapes ADHD in
the Classroom, produced with Kevin Dawkins Productions
and Guilford Publications.
Nominated for Best Educational Film of the Year,
International Health and Medical Film Festival, San
Francisco, CA, February 1994, for the videotapes ADHD:
What Do We Know? and ADHD: What Can We Do?, produced
with Kevin Dawkins Productions and Guilford Publications.
Named one of the best child mental health professionals
in the United States, Good Housekeeping magazine, January
1994.
Commencement Speaker, Wayne Community College,
Goldsboro, NC, May 1994.
Distinguished Contribution Award, Association
for the Advancement of Applied and Preventive Psychology,
July 1994, Washington, DC.
Inducted into the ADD Hall of Fame, Annual National
Meeting of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention
Deficit Disorders), October 14, 1994.
Mentor Award, Massachusetts State Science Fair,
April 29, 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, MA.
C. Anderson Aldrich Award for Research on Child
Health and Development, Division of Developmental and
Behavioral Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics,
November 1996, Boston, MA.
Finalist for best video in the Professional Education/Patient
Information category, New York Festival Media Competition
for Managing the Defiant Child, by R. A. Barkley, created
with Guilford Publications and Kevin Dawkins Productions,
January 16, 1998.
Distinguished Contribution to Research Award,
Section on Clinical Child Psychology, Division 12, American
Psychological Association, August 1998, San Francisco.
President’s Award, Wisconsin Psychology Foundation,
for service to the Foundation and to children and adults
with ADHD, May 1999, Madison, WI.
Outstanding Educator Award for Mental Health Education,
New England Educational Institute, August 1999, Cape
Cod, MA.
2002 SSCP Science Dissemination Award, Society
for a Science of Clinical Psychology, Section 3, Division
12, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association,
August 2002, Toronto.
2004 Distinguished Service Award to the Profession
of Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology,
Inc., Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association,
August 2004, Hawaii.
Full Disclosure
Critics of ADHD and especially of Dr. Barkley have often
mistakenly claimed that he receives large amounts of
support from drug companies. Below is an actual listing
of the proportion of income he has recently received
(tax year 2004):
State of Massachusetts (5%) (retirement from University
of Massachusetts Medical School)
Medical University of South Carolina (salary) (8%) based
on:
U.S. Department of Education
(service grant)
National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development (research grant)
National Institute of
Mental Health (research grant to Univ. of Maryland)
Eli Lilly Co. (research
grant)
McNeil Pharmaceuticals (U.S.) and Janssen-Ortho (Canada)
(speaker fees) (1%)
Shire Pharmaceutical Co. (Consulting/speaker fees) (<1%)
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (<1%)
Eli Lilly Co. (Speaker/Consulting fees) (<8%)
Guilford Publications (Book and newsletter royalties)
(32%)
Compact Clinicals (Product royalty) (1%)
Miscellaneous health care and educational organizations
(speaker fees) (43%)
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