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DBSA 2005 Scientific Advisory Board

DBSA is guided by a 65-member Scientific Advisory Board comprised of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field of mood disorders.

 

CHAIR

Ellen Frank, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Pittsburgh, PA

 

VICE CHAIR

Gregory Simon, M.D., M.P.H.
Investigator Center for Health Studies Group Health Cooperative
Seattle, WA

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Joseph R. Calabrese, M.D. 
Director, Mood Disorders Program Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Center for Intervention and Services Research in Bipolar Disorder Across the Life Span University 
Hospital of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Paula J. Clayton, M.D
Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of New Mexico Medical School Santa Fe, NM

Larry Culpepper, M.D., M.P.H.
Chairman of Family Medicine
Boston University Medical Center
Boston, MA 

David J. Kupfer, M.D.
Thomas Detre Professor & Chairman Department of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA

Myrna Weissman, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology & Psychiatry Chief, Division of Clinical & Genetic Epidemiology
Columbia University College of 
Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY

 

MEMBERS

George S. Alexopoulos, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Weill Medical College of Cornell University
White Plains, NY

Lori L. Altshuler, M.D.
Director Mood Disorders Research Program
University of California, Los Angeles 
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital Center for the Health Sciences
Los Angeles, CA

Mark S. Bauer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Brown University School of Medicine
Chief, Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences Service Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Providence, RI

William Beardslee, M.D. Psychiatrist-in-Chief Department of Psychiatry
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA

Joseph Biederman, M.D.
Chief, Joint Program Pediatric Psychopharmacology Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Boris Birmaher, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic 
Pittsburgh, PA

Charles L. Bowden, M.D.
Karren Professor and Chairman Department of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Dennis S. Charney, M.D.
Dean for Research
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

Pedro Delgado, M.D.
Douglas D. Bond Professor & Chairman Department of Psychiatry
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine 
Cleveland, OH

J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., M.D.
Henry Phipps Professor and Director of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

David L. Dunner, M.D.
Professor Director, Center of Anxiety & Depression
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Dwight L. Evans, M.D
Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Health System
Philadelphia, PA

Jan Fawcett, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
University of New Mexico School of Medicine 
Albuquerque, NM

Alan J. Gelenberg, M.D.
Professor and Head
Department of Psychiatry
College of Medicine 
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

Barbara Geller, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO

Robert N. Golden, M.D.
Professor and Chair 
Department of Psychiatry
University of North Carolina 
Chapel Hill, NC

Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D.
Director, Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress and Society
George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, DC

Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Psychiatry 
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

John F. Greden, M.D.
Rachel Upjohn Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Executive Director, University of Michigan Depression Center
Senior Research Scientist Mental Health Research Institute
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, M.D.
Titus Harris Chair Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Robert L. Johnson, M.D. FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry Director of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
UMDNJ
New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

Ned H. Kalin, M.D.
Hedberg Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Wayne Katon, M.D.
Professor, Vice Chair
Director Division of Health Services and Psychiatric Epidemiology
University of Washington Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Seattle, WA

Paul E. Keck, Jr., M.D.
Professor & Vice Chairman for Research Department of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, OH

Martin B. Keller, M.D.
Chair
Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Brown University Butler Hospital Providence, RI

Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

K. Ranga Krishnan, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

William B. Lawson, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.P.A.
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
Howard University Hospital
Washington, DC

Keh-Ming Lin, M.D., M.P.H.
Director Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity
Harbor UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Juan F. Lopez, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department. of Psychiatry
Assistant Research Scientist
Mental Health Research Institute University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

James P. McCullough, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry Unipolar Mood Disorders Institute Department of Psychiatry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Susan McElroy, M.D. 
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati Medical Center College of Medicine/
Cincinnati, OH

Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
Alfred E. Mirsky
Professor
Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY

J. John Mann, M.D
Professor of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute Department of Neuroscience College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
New York, NY

Lauren B. Marangell, M.D.
Director, Clinical Psychopharmacology
Director, Mood Disorders Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

John S. March, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke Child and Family Study Center
Durham, NC

Helen S. Mayberg, M.D.
Professor
Psychiatry and Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine 
Atlanta, GA

David J. Miklowitz, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Ricardo F. Munoz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychiatry at SFGH University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.
Reunette W. Harris Professor and Chairman Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA

Eric J. Nestler, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D.
Kenneth Appel Professor Vice Chair of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia VA Medical Center/MIRECC Philadelphia, PA

Daniel S. Pine, M.D.
Chief, Section on Development And Affective Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD

Robert Post, M.D.
Chief
Biological Psychiatry Branch
National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, MD

Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Pittsburgh, PA

David Rubinow, M.D.
Chief, Behavioral Endocrinology Branch Clinical Director
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD

A. John Rush, M.D.
Professor & Vice Chairman for Research Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health Rosewood Corporation Chair in Biomedical Science
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX

Neal Ryan, M.D.
Joaquim Puig-Antich Professor of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic Pittsburgh, PA

Gary Sachs, M.D.
Director
Bipolar Research Program
Harvard University
Boston, MA

Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr., Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

Edward Scolnick, M.D.
Director, Psychiatric Disease Initiative
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

David Shaffer, M.D.
Irving Philips Professor of Psychiatry Director, Department of Child Psychiatry Columbia University
New York, NY 

Trisha Suppes, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Bipolar Research Program
Dallas, Texas 

Michael E. Thase, M.D. 
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA

Karen D. Wagner, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Kenneth Wells, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Health Services Research Center
Los Angeles, CA

John M. Zajecka, M.D.
Associate Professor
Treatment Research Center
Department of Psychiatry Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center Chicago, IL

 

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