Dr. Pine received his B.A. in anthropology from Grinnell College in 1985 and his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1990. He completed an internship in pediatrics, a residency in general psychiatry, and fellowships in both child psychiatry and child psychiatry research at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Pine held both junior and senior faculty positions at Columbia, where he studied epidemiology, psychobiology, and therapeutics of childhood mood and anxiety disorders, working with David Shaffer, Patricia Cohen, as well as Donald and Rachel Klein. In 2000, he moved to the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program within the NIMH as Chief of the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience. Dr. Pine received a NARSAD Independent Investigator Award, a NIMH Career Development Award and the Blanche Ittelson Award from the American Psychiatric Association. His laboratory investigates the neural and psychological correlates of pediatric mood and anxiety disorders.