His interest in pediatrics turned to pediatric psychiatry training at the Maudsley Hospital in London. Always interested in research, he conducted the first epidemiologically based psychological-autopsy study of suicide in children and teenagers while still a resident. Shaffer moved to the United States in to take the position of chair of child psychiatry at Columbia University, which he held for 31 years, retiring in During that time, the department became the largest research-oriented child psychiatry center in the United States, training many of the psychiatrists who now lead the field.
Shaffer's interest in neuropsychiatry led to a large follow-up study that showed how the combination of certain neurological signs with anxiety in early childhood was associated with the persistence of anxiety through to late adolescence and its relationship to suicidal behavior. His current research is focusing on the events and moods that occur during the period immediately before the moment when a teenager decides to commit suicide.
A relatively new interest is that of OCD and social anxiety as conditions that can significantly interfere with the education and social development of highly intelligent and gifted young people. Shaffer's past offices and awards include being past president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the International Academy of Suicide Research. To contact GME, email us at [email protected].
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