Robert Kenneth Heinssen PhD, ABPP

Dr. Robert Heinssen is Director of the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Since 1999, Dr. Heinssen has played a key role in launching major NIMH research initiatives in the areas of prodromal psychosis, first episode schizophrenia, and neuroscience-based assessment and remediation of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
Dr. Heinssen earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Catholic University of America. He completed a clinical fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and residency at Chestnut Lodge Hospital, where he worked for 13 years as a researcher, clinician, and administrator. He is a board certified, licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Heinssen is the founder and past president of the Schizophrenia Special Interest Group within the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.