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Barbara J. Coffey, M.D., M.S. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has held the position of Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry since October 1, 2017 and Director of the University of Miami Tourette Association of America (TAA) Center of Excellence since July 1, 2019. Dr. Coffey is an internationally recognized specialist in tics, Tourette's Disorder and related disorders, such as ADHD and OCD.Dr. Coffey was former Chief of the TAA Center of Excellence at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at ISMMS, and Research Psychiatrist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York between 2012-2017.Dr. Coffey served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was Director of the Tourette's Clinics at McLean and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston between 1992-2001, and Director of the Tics and Tourette's Program and Associate Professor at New York University School of Medicine between 2001-2012.Dr. Coffey is the author of more than 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, and book chapters. Co-Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Tourette Association of America, Dr. Coffey's research has focused on the clinical course, psychiatric comorbidity, phenomenology, and novel treatments of Tourette's Disorder.