Eleanor McGlinchey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry) in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. McGlinchey received her BA from Temple University, where she majored in both psychology and religion, and her PhD in clinical science from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her clinical psychology internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, and her T32 Research Fellowship at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center.

At the division, Dr. McGlinchey is involved in a project investigating biomarkers of sleep and treatment response to sertraline in children and adolescents diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Her current research interest is on developing psychosocial treatments for childhood and adolescent mood disorders, with a focus on identifying biomarkers of treatment response. Her research to date has centered on the role of sleep disturbance and circadian rhythm dysfunction as potential precipitating and maintaining mechanisms in mood disorders.