David Miklowitz, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute, and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University. His research focuses on family environmental factors and family psychoeducational treatments for adult-onset and childhood-onset bipolar disorder.

Among his many honors, he is a NARSAD Young Investigator (1987); Distinguished Investigator (2001); and in 2011 was the Foundation’s Colvin Prizewinner for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorder Research. He has published over 250 research articles and eight books, including The Bipolar Teen: What You Can Do to Help Your Child and Family (with Elizabeth George) and The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide.