A double board-certified general psychiatrist and child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Gerdner served as an assistant editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and has written book chapters on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, and autism spectrum disorders. He has published on the nature of the patient-physician relationship and has presented at national conferences on difficult-to-treat psychiatric conditions and on innovations in medical education.

Dr. Gerdner is thankful to have had the opportunity to pursue subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Yale, where he had the honor of being elected Chief Fellow by his peers and faculty. At Yale, he also had the privilege of teaching an undergraduate course on the neuroscience, psychology and history of mindfulness.

Dr. Gerdner is delighted to be working with patients and families in practice together with his friend and colleague Linda Drozdowicz, M.D., in Darien, Conn. Their practice is called Elmport Group. In his free time, Dr. Gerdner enjoys spending time with his family, reading, tending to his bonsai trees, playing video games, and exploring beautiful Connecticut by bicycle and kayak, often with fishing pole in hand.

Double board-certified in both Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology