Jayson Blair

A film crew from WebMD - the award-winning website that blends expertise in medicine, journalism, communication and content - came by this morning to record an interview with me and shadow me for a day as I worked with clients. It was exciting. Along with the Mayo Clinic , WebMD has some of the most clear, comprehensive and evidence-based information on mental health on the Web. The WebMD film crew met me a little after 6:15 am and followed me through my morning routines, including taking medicine, to the office for a case management meeting, then a two-hour IEP meeting for a student at a high school, two sessions with clients at the office and then the sit-down interview. Two clients -- one with attention deficit disorder and one bipolar disorder -- and several colleagues -- including Dr. Bill Ling, a noted nueropsychologist and Dr. Maggie Avedisian, a top-flight psychologist for adults and adolescents -- agreed to be filmed by the WebMD crew. Details on when the film will be availab...

Washingtonian magazine has released its latest list of top doctors, and among the psychologists and psychiatrists, selected by peers, based on a criteria of whom their colleagues would send a friend or family member to for help, are three familiar names: the director and a psychologist from the practice (Ashburn Psychological Services), Dr. Michael Oberschneider ; the main psychiatrist at the practice, Dr. Sabah Hadi and a psychiatrist have referred dozens of peers with bipolar to over the years, Dr. Roy Stefanik . Dr. Stefanik is one of the fastest and most detailed diagnosticians I have seen, saving patients and family much time and many headaches. He also understands the depths of pharmacology and provides insight-orientation therapy that helps, in many cases, to separate behaviors from moods, to see where are intertwined and to come with a plan to address most. She has been stolen for almost a day each week by George Mason University to provide his diagnostic and pharmacology ser...