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Diagnostic Tools

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Helpful tools to diagnose a youth with a mental health condition, and to prescribe and monitor psychotropic medications.

Procedures

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Information regarding the process for requesting and obtaining a consent for a psychotropic medication during normal business hours and after hours,weekends and holidays.

What's New

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The latest information regarding psychotropic medication information and changes in DCFS consent procedures.  

Frequently Asked ?'s

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Explore frequently asked questions regarding the consent procedure and psychotropic medications for clinicians, caseworkers and foster parents.

Fedra Najjar, MD

Fedra Najjar, MD

Fedra Najjar, MD

Psychiatric Consultant

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UIC, Department of Psychiatry Profile

Fedra Najjar, MD, is the director of the neurodevelopmental disorder psychopharmacology clinic at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is also the associate medical director of the comprehensive assessment and treatment unit (CATU), an inpatient psychiatric unit at UIC treating adolescents who are in state custody.

Prior to joining UIC staff, doctor Najjar, was on faculty at University of Chicago as the director of the psychopharmacology clinic where she treated psychiatric disorders in child and adolescents and supervised other clinicians.

Doctor Najjar came to the University of Chicago, after graduating from the child and adolescent training program at Brown and having joined their clinical psychiatry staff for some time. For her undergraduate degree, Fedra Najjar graduated from the American university of Beirut, in Beirut Lebanon with a bachelor of science in biology, and medical doctor degree. Doctor Najjar then pursued residency in psychiatry and completed general psychiatry training at the University of Rochester, New York, before specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry.

 

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