Mary Victoria Solanto PhD

Dr. Mary Victoria Solanto is a Professor at the Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine; Department of Pediatrics and was an adjunct faculty member at the Yale University Child Study Center. She completed her undergraduate education at Princeton University and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo. She subsequently completed an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to joining NYU, she was the Director of the ADHD Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Solanto’s research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and characteristics of the subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Solanto has also worked extensively with adults with ADHD. She developed a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention that targets problems of time management and organization in adults with ADHD and which was the focus of an NIMH-sponsored treatment efficacy study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The manual for therapists, titled Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction was published in 2011 (Guilford Press).