, is a distinguished professor of psychiatry and the director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is also a visiting professor of psychiatry at Oxford University in the U.K. His research focuses on family environmental factors and family interventions for children, adolescents, and adults with bipolar disorder and youth at high risk for mood disorders or psychosis.
Miklowitz has received numerous awards for his research and writings including the Young Investigator Awards from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression , a Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD , the 2005 Mogens Schou Award for Research from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, the 2009 Gerald L.