Curriculum Vitae

Marilyn B. Benoit, M.D.

Summary

Dr. Marilyn Benoit is a child & adolescent psychiatrist who is currently the President of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).� She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Until June, 2003 she was at� Howard University Hospital, where she was the Program Director of Children’s Psychiatric Services.� She served as Interim Chair of the Department of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Benoit served for ten years as a Board Examiner for both child and general psychiatry. Dr. Benoit has served as the representative of the AACAP on the American Medical Association’s National Council on Family Violence since its inception in 1993.� She was the Chair of the AACAP’s task force on Violence and served as a Commissioner on the AMA’s Commission on Youth Violence. She was appointed by the Director of the National Institutes of Health to the National Institute of Mental Health Council to establish a ten-year research agenda for Child Mental Health. She is an Ad-hoc member of the Council of Public Representatives of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Benoit is visionary, innovative, driven to have successful, high quality outcomes, is inspiring to employees and students, and committed to the idea of teamwork. Her academic credentials as a physician, and as a health care administrator and leader in organized medicine place her in a unique position in the healthcare field. Dr. Benoit is a national advocate for children, appearing before Congressional Committees and testifying on behalf of children on a range of issues pertaining to the welfare of children (e.g. child abuse, TV & media violence, community violence, suicide in youth, teenage pregnancy). She has published several articles and chapters on related topics. Her commentary is frequently sought nationally by television, radio and the print media on child related issues.

She has been an invited participant in national policy discussions including White House conferences, White House focus group on child welfare, Head Start Research Council, and the Surgeon General’s Child Mental Health Conference. Her Presidential Initiative is a national collaborative effort with the Child Welfare League of America to improve the mental health services to children in foster care. As President of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Dr.Benoit has traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Iran, Mexico, Canada and Trinidad.

Dr. Benoit graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University and went on to complete her medical degree, general psychiatry training, and her child psychiatry fellowship at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. She completed a graduate degree in Health Services Management & Policy at The George Washington University, and a policy fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Her professional career has spanned academia, public service and private practice. She was awarded the Vicennial Silver Medal by the President of Georgetown University for twenty years of distinguished service to the University.

Dr. Benoit is the proud mother of Maria Benoit Braman, M.D., a resident in pathology at the Washington Hospital Center and Mark Benoit, MBA, who lives and works in Hermosa Beach, California. Her husband, Geoffrey J. H. Brown is a retired Comsat (now Lockheed Martin) computer systems analyst. Leisure time activities include cooking, listening to music, entertaining, reading, rollerblading, walking, kayaking, dancing and traveling. Family celebrations are very important to her.