Dr. Russell E. Scheffer, MD

Expert Publications

• Reduced erythrocyte membrane essential fatty acids and increased lipid peroxides in schizophrenia at the never-medicated first-episode of psychosis and after years of treatment with antipsychotics.
• Abnormal neurological signs at the onset of psychosis.
• Psychopharmacology: clinical implications of brain neurochemistry.
• Childhood onset bipolar disorder: a role for early recognition and treatment.
• Concurrent medical conditions with pediatric bipolar disorder.
• Concurrent ADHD and bipolar disorder.
• Rapid quetiapine loading in youths with bipolar disorder.
• Guidelines for treatment-resistant mania in children with bipolar disorder.
• Review: second-generation antipsychotics improve response in paediatric bipolar disorder, but are associated with adverse events.
• Placebo-controlled trial of valproic Acid versus risperidone in children 3-7 years of age with bipolar I disorder.
• A 6-Month Open-Label Extension Study of Vortioxetine in Pediatric Patients with Depressive or Anxiety Disorders.

Media Releases

Get to know Psychiatrist Dr. Russell E. Scheffer, who serves patients in Kansas.

Russell E. Scheffer, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist with 30 years of academic and clinical excellence. He has garnered a well-deserved reputation among the Best Doctors in America since 2005 for his devotion to his patients. Dr. Scheffer serves as a medical director for a global health service company, where he consults and reviews policies. Additionally, Dr. Scheffer operates a small private practice specializing in child, adolescent, and family psychiatry, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, ADHD, psychopharmacology and more.

A graduate of the University of Kansas, Dr. Scheffer performed undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry in from 1981 to 1982 at the University of Nebraska. He furthered his Chemistry training at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, from 1983 to 1985. Following this, he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology from the University of Kansas in 1987. In that same year, he began the health professional scholarship program with the U.S. Army Reserves until his completion in 1991. He earned a medical degree from Kansas University Medical Center in 1991, followed by a general psychiatry internship and residency at the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in 1995. Shortly after, he completed a child, adolescent, and family psychiatry fellowship at DDEAMC/Medical College of Georgia in 1996. He is board certified in Child, Adolescent, and General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is currently pursuing his MBA.

Dr. Scheffer served the U.S. Army Medical Department at Fort Hood, TX, and Fort Gordon, GA. Highly awarded, he earned the Army Commendation Award, the Army Achievement Award, the Army Superior Unit Award, and the Cold War Victory Award. He served at the Medical College of Georgia as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry from 1996 to 2002 and at A&M Health Science Center as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry from 1996 to 1998. 

He maintains memberships with the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, International Early Psychosis Association, International Society for Bipolar Disorders, International Society for Affective Disorders, Kansas Medical Society, Medical Society of Sedgwick County, Kansas Psychiatric Society, International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, and American Association of Physicians. He is a distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a member of the Educational Board Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. An Ad Hoc reviewer, he has conducted peer reviews for Schizophrenia Research, Academic Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Bipolar Disorders, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Scheffer has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including the KUMC Endowment Association Early Career Award, the Anthony Meyer Best Teacher Award by the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Outstanding Teacher Award by the Child Psychiatry Division UT Southwestern Medical Center. 

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