Marc Schwartz, MD Co-editor
Dr. Schwartz is a board certified psychiatrist who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of adults with ADD. He was awarded a B.A. with honors from Princeton University, graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and, after interning at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, received his psychiatric training at the Yale University Department of Psychiatry. After completing his residency, he taught psychiatry full time at Yale for two years then entered private practice. He has specialized in the treatment of adult ADD since 1998.
Over the years he has served on the clinical faculties of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, the NYU Department of Psychiatry, and the Yale University Department of Psychology. A past President of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society, he the author of a book and numerous articles on clinical psychiatry and is editor of the on-line medical newsletter, Medical-Intelligence. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
He accepts new ADD patients for evaluation and treatment whenever he has openings in his practice. Evaluation session generally lasts about 50 minutes. If he determine that the patient has ADD and there are no reasons not to treat the patient with medication, he generally suggests starting an ADD medication. Sometimes, I may also suggest coaching, therapy, or other approaches.
He usually sees patient two and four weeks after medication is started for 25 minute sessions. There may be brief phone sessions between office visits. He has found that improvement is generally seen fairly quickly, but it may require two or three months to find an optimal treatment regimen.
Once this is achieved, he meets with the patient once every three months to see if any changes in treatment are needed and to deal with any treatment issues that might have come up. In some cases, he may recommend that the patient be seen more frequently. Although this program is usually helpful and effective, he can offer no assurance that he will find the right medication or treatment for any individual patient.
He is not in any managed care networks. However, many patients have “out-of-network” insurance benefits that may reimburse them for part of their payments.
If you would like to discuss seeing Dr Schwartz for an ADD evaluation, please call his office, (203) 772-5494, between 8:30 and 4:30 Monday through Friday.
Because of the large number of inquiries he receives from visitors to this site, he is not able to answer email or phone questions about diagnoses or treatment, nor is he able to suggest the names of therapists. (For the latter, try a Google or Yahoo search for: Adult ADD MD <name of your city>). However, he will answer some questions in the Question and Answer section of this site and always welcome notes from people about interesting or unusual observations or experiences they have had with their ADD symptoms or treatment.
His email address for sending a question or a comment for the Questions/Answers page is MarcDSchwartzMD@GMail.com
