Mini Tandon

Mini Tandon

Professor of Psychiatry (Child)

Additional Titles & Roles


  • Medical Director, Hermann Center
  • Director, the SYNCHRONY Project
  • Coach, Washington Univ School of Med, Med Student, Gateway Curriculum

Education & Training


  • Postdoctoral Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
  • Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
  • Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2005
  • D.O.: Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, 2002
  • B.S.: Truman State University (Formerly Northeast Missouri State University), 1997

Major Awards


  • Top Docs, St. Louis, current
  • St.Louis Children’s County Service Fund(CSF)-The SYNCHRONY Project—clinical: family psychiatric care with the goal to reduce child maltreatment recidivism with the courts, current
  • Project SURROuND, (Tandon, PI) in Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment Policy, Research,& Training, Brown School of Social Work, St. Louis (HD096719, Jonson-Reid, PI), -8/2025
  • K12/NIDA/AACAP DA000357 Prenatal Cigarette Exposure and Course of Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), -5/2015

Areas of Clinical Interest


Mini Tandon, D.O., is interested in ADHD and comorbidities with onset in the preschool period; trauma, child maltreatment and foster care; in-utero exposures and childhood psychopathology; psychotherapies in early childhood; and child mental health advocacy and community organization.

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Research Interests


Substance Exposures and course of childhood ADHD, and disruptive outcomes; parenting as a moderator for disruptive outcomes in early childhood; characterization of disorders in the preschool period, including ADHD; empirically-supported psychotherapies for preschoolers; child maltreatment and trauma prevention and interventions

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