| Dejan Budimirovic, MD Staff Pediatric Psychiatrist, Kennedy Krieger Institute Dejan Budimirovic, MD is a staff pediatric psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. |
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Budimirovic is originally from Sabac, Serbia, the former Yugoslavia. In 1987 he graduated Magna cum Laude from Belgrade University School of Medicine in Belgrade with a degree as Doctor of Medicine. He was appointed a full-time clinical fellow at the University Clinical Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Belgrade University School of Medicine in 1991, completing his two-year core adult psychiatric training and postgraduate study in biological psychiatry in 1993.
After moving to the United States, Dr. Budimirovic completed a residency in adult psychiatry in the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University School of Medicine’s South Shore Residency Training Program in 1997. In 1999, Dr. Budimirovic completed a residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and NYU Child Study Center, at the New York University Medical Center, where he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the faculty and staff for “therapeutic skills and professionalism.”
At Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Budimirovic was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, providing clinical services as an attending psychiatrist at an adolescent Unit, teaching psychiatry residents, and doing research during his four-year tenure while at Yale. He was an attending child psychiatrist, and served as the Medical Director as well, at the Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, NY, before joining Kennedy Krieger Institute as Attending Pediatric Psychiatrist on the medical staff in November of 2004.
Dr. Budimirovic is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the subspecialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.
After moving to the United States, Dr. Budimirovic completed a residency in adult psychiatry in the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University School of Medicine’s South Shore Residency Training Program in 1997. In 1999, Dr. Budimirovic completed a residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and NYU Child Study Center, at the New York University Medical Center, where he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the faculty and staff for “therapeutic skills and professionalism.”
At Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Budimirovic was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, providing clinical services as an attending psychiatrist at an adolescent Unit, teaching psychiatry residents, and doing research during his four-year tenure while at Yale. He was an attending child psychiatrist, and served as the Medical Director as well, at the Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, NY, before joining Kennedy Krieger Institute as Attending Pediatric Psychiatrist on the medical staff in November of 2004.
Dr. Budimirovic is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the subspecialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.
Research Summary:
By applying empirical methods, Dr. Budimirovic’s most recent research studied the social withdrawal (SW) phenomena in boys with Fragile X syndrome in order to identify profiles and groups of SW linked to the DSM-IV diagnoses of social interaction disorder, namely autism spectrum disorder and social anxiety
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Coffee B, Ikeda M, Budimirovic DB, Hjelm LN, Kaufmann WE, Warren ST.
Mosaic FMR1 Deletion Causes Fragile X Syndrome and Can Lead to Molecular Misdiagnosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Am J Med Genet. 2008; 146A: 1358-1367.
Kaufmann W, Capone G, Clarke M, Budimirovic DB. “Autism in Genetic Intellectual Disability: Insights into Idiopathic Autism” In A. W. Zimmerman A. (ed), Autism, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-489-0_4,_Humana Press, Totowa, NJ 2008.
A Poster Presentation titled “Characterization of the Social Withdrawal in Fragile X Syndrome by Factor Analysis”, presented on October 30, 2008 at the AACAP Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Budimirovic DB, Bukelis I, Cox C, Gray R, Tierney E, Kaufmann WE (2006). Autism Spectrum Disorder in Fragile X Syndrome: Differential Contribution of Adaptive Socialization and Social Withdrawal. Am J Med Genet, 140A (17): 1814-1826.
“Principles and Practice Medication Management of ADHD and Related Problems”. A formal case presentation type, part I (identification & management of comorbid psychiatric disorders) and part II (treatment of ADHD in special); Greenspring Campus, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore; Feb. 2005.
“A Review of the Supplementary Talking Points by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, regarding the FDA Black Box Warning on the Use of Antidepressants in Pediatric Population”. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Broadway Campus, Baltimore, Sept. 2005.
Kaufmann W, Capone G, Clarke M, Budimirovic DB. “Autism in Genetic Intellectual Disability: Insights into Idiopathic Autism” In A. W. Zimmerman A. (ed), Autism, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-489-0_4,_Humana Press, Totowa, NJ 2008.
A Poster Presentation titled “Characterization of the Social Withdrawal in Fragile X Syndrome by Factor Analysis”, presented on October 30, 2008 at the AACAP Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Budimirovic DB, Bukelis I, Cox C, Gray R, Tierney E, Kaufmann WE (2006). Autism Spectrum Disorder in Fragile X Syndrome: Differential Contribution of Adaptive Socialization and Social Withdrawal. Am J Med Genet, 140A (17): 1814-1826.
“Principles and Practice Medication Management of ADHD and Related Problems”. A formal case presentation type, part I (identification & management of comorbid psychiatric disorders) and part II (treatment of ADHD in special); Greenspring Campus, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore; Feb. 2005.
“A Review of the Supplementary Talking Points by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, regarding the FDA Black Box Warning on the Use of Antidepressants in Pediatric Population”. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Broadway Campus, Baltimore, Sept. 2005.
Contact Information:
Dejan B. Budimirovic, MD
Attending Child Psychiatist
Outpatient Pediatric Psychiatry
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Clinical Research Building
716 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
(maps & directions)
Telephone: (443) 923-2634
Facsimile: (443) 923-7628
E:mail: budimirovic@kennedykrieger.org
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Attending Child Psychiatist
Outpatient Pediatric Psychiatry
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Clinical Research Building
716 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
(maps & directions)
Telephone: (443) 923-2634
Facsimile: (443) 923-7628
E:mail: budimirovic@kennedykrieger.org
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine