Oscar G. Bukstein, M.D., M.P.H.

Biography

Dr. Oscar Bukstein is currently Vice-Chair and Associate Psychiatrist-in-Chief for Academic Affairs and Training Director for the Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining BCH in 2016 he spent several years at the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center in Houston, where he was professor of Psychiatry and Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as at DePelchin Children’s Center where he was Medical Director. He spent 28 years at the Western Psychiatric Institute Clinic and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as professor of Psychiatry.

He attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and has a master’s degree in Public Health from UT-Houston. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and previously in Addiction Psychiatry. He has over 30 years of practice experience with particular clinical and research expertise in treating youth with substance use disorders, and other disruptive behavior disorders.

Dr. Bukstein has a substantial academic record, having authored or coauthored over 150 papers, chapters, and books, and has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. He is presently Co-Chair of the Committee on Quality Issues, the component of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that develops clinical practice guidelines for professionals treating children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders.