James C. Harris MD

Dr. James C. Harris is the founding Director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatry program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Before initiating this specialty area in psychiatry for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and acquired brain injury he served as Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He received his M.D. degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his pediatric internship at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles before joining the US Public Health Service where he spent 2 ½ years as Peace Corps Staff Physician in Thailand.

He continued his training in General Pediatrics at the University of Rochester and completed it at the Johns Hopkins University. Subsequently, he completed additional residency training in Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics, General Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. Currently, he is the series editor for Developmental Perspectives in Psychiatry for Oxford University Press and writes the section on Developmental Neuropsychiatry for the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. In 1983 he founded the Autism Clinic at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and served as its co-director.