Deborah Simkin

Dr. Simkin is a board certified Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist. She is also a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine, board certified in neurofeedback and practices Integrative (Functional) Psychiatry Medicine in private practice. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory School of Medicine where she teaches Functional Psychiatry. She is a Diplomate Fellow with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has co-edited several textbooks including a 2 volume text on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Disorders in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, is the co-editor for the adolescent section of the ASAM textbook on addictions and has written several chapters on LORETA neurofeedback,   neurofeedback research, meditation, and the role of inflammation as it pertains to psychiatric illnesses. She serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Committee on Complementary and Integrative Medicine and serves as a liaison to the National Committee on Complementary and Integrative Psychiatry at NIH. She has received several awards including the two most outstanding faculty teaching awards and outstanding mental health clinician. She co-presents with Joel Lubar, PhD to educate physicians to new research and methods in LORETA neurofeedback and has worked with veterans using LORETA neurofeedback for Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD, as well as other conditions in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. She has presented internationally and will soon become certified in Functional Medicine with the Institute of Functional Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.