Leighton Huey, M.D.
Professor
Chairman

Dr. Leighton Y. Huey is the Birnbaum/Blum Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut, a position he began in September, 1998. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Huey was Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School from 1994-1998, and before that was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Huey has a clinical and research background in psychopharmacology focusing on mood disorders and attention deficit disorders. Since coming to UConn, he has created two new Centers within the Department of Psychiatry, one focusing on Neuropsychopharmacology Treatment, Research, and Training and another on the Study of High Utilizers of Health Care. One of his goals is to create opportunities for the early identification of individuals having psychiatric problems so that more effective interventions can occur resulting in improved outcomes and reduction in illness burden. He is interested in determining the protective and risk factors which work within individuals so that the most appropriate education, assessment, and treatment can be targeted to each person. He is an advocate of having mental health and public health efforts integrated and applied to innovative community-based multidisciplinary training models which graduate individuals who are well-trained to join the public sector workforce. He is also committed to the training of clinician-scientists as future academicians with a public-sector focus. He is pointing the UConn Department in the direction of being a strong public sector-oriented Department to serve as a resource to the public sector through clinical, research, and training initiatives with various State and City systems.