Richard Oberfield, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. He also serves as Unit Chief and Director of the Pediatric Consultation Liaison Clinic at Bellevue Hospital and Director of the Family Therapy Unit at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Oberfield is an Associate Attending Physician at Tisch Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Attending Physician at Bellevue Hospital Center. His major research interests include the diagnostic validity and correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents, treatment approaches to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents, and integration of mental health services in pediatric settings. Dr. Oberfield is board certified in general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Oberfield received his B.A. from the Cornell University and his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Oberfield completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center and an externship in family therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

Prior to joining the NYU Child Study Center, Dr. Oberfield was a staff Attending Psychiatrist at the Pediatric Consultation Liaison Clinic at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Oberfield is a member of a number of professional organizations and has held major offices including Board of Directors and President of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Delegate to the Assembly for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Co-Chair of the New York Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Family Law. He has published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

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