Marco Grados
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Marco Grados, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the clinical director for the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He has ample clinical experience with individuals with intellectual disability and psychiatric disorders, through his work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
His specialty is in obsessive-compulsive disorder (repetitive behaviors), as well as Tourette disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder. He is dedicated to genetic epidemiology research in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, for which he obtained a five-year Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (2002-2007) to study the genetics of OCD in children.
He has collaborated with several genetic research networks including the Tourette syndrome International Genetics Consortium, and the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Genetics Study group. Dr. Grados also conducts research in Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS), with support from the CdLS-USA Foundation, in relation to behavioral challenges in youth with CdLS.
