Richard Norman Atkins MD JD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Physician

Summary

Dr. Richard Atkins is a psychiatrist based in San Francisco, CA, with subspecialties in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He completed his fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and his psychiatric residency at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. An alumnus of Stanford University School of Medicine, he also holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Dr. Atkins has served in various capacities, including as Deputy Commissioner at the NYC Department of Health and as a Professor at New York Medical College. His experience spans health policy, government relations, and psychoanalysis, and he is recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published work in psychoanalysis, including a study on father representations in adolescent sons.

Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D., Law, 2008 - 2011
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityFellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1975 - 1977
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Psychiatry, 1973 - 1975
Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 1973, MD