About J. Russell Ramsay

Dr. J. Russell (“Russ”) Ramsay is co-founder and co-director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program and an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ramsay received his PhD from Palo Alto University (formerly known as Pacific Graduate School of Psychology). He completed an APA-approved pre-doctoral internship at CPC Behavioral Healthcare in Red Bank, New Jersey, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he continues to work as a senior staff clinician. Dr. Ramsay has authored numerous peer-reviewed professional and scientific articles, research abstracts, as well as many book chapters. He is author of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach (with Dr. Anthony Rostain and published by Routledge, 2015), which is in its second edition; Nonmedication Treatments for Adult ADHD: Evaluating Impact of Daily Functioning and Well-Being (American Psychological Association [APA], 2010); and the patient guidebook The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out (with Dr. Anthony Rostain and published by Routledge, 2015). Dr. Ramsay’s most recent book, Thinking Through Adult ADHD: How Thoughts Turn Intentions into Actions (or Not), is slated for a January 2020 release by APA.