Meet the Staff - Gregory C. Fernandopulle, M.D.

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Gregory C. Fernandopulle, M.D. joined the Center in 1998. He is a board certified general and child & adolescent psychiatrist who sees children, adolescent and adults. He specializes in the treatment of attention, anxiety, learning, movement, mood, and trauma disorders in all age groups and in cross cultural psychiatry. Dr. Fernadopulle is especially known for his expertise in pediatric psychopharmacology and psychiatric problems of the clergy.

Dr. Fernandopulle is a naturalized US Citizen who was born and educated in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). He completed his undergraduate medical, and general residency education at the University of Sri Lanka. Before coming to the United States in 1969 to begin a psychiatric residency, he worked for two years as a primary care physician. He completed his adult psychiatric training at the Seton Psychiatric Institute in Baltimore in 1972 and his child & adolescent fellowship and chief residency in 1974 at Johns Hopkins. Following his training, he served for more than twenty years as St. Agnes Hospital’s Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition to his hospital work, Dr. Fernandopulle has maintained active office and consulting practices and a continuous commitment to child fellowship training as a Hopkins clinical supervisor. He is an active member, past president and fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and as President of the Sri Lankan-American Catholic Association of Greater Washington is heavily involved in the 2005 Tsunami Relief Effort.