Alan Schatzberg

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States of America

Alan F. Schatzberg M.D.

Academic positions:
- Kenneth T. Norris, Jr., Professor and Chairman

Any industry positions (last five years):
2000-2007, Board of Directors, Corcept Therapeutics

Research interests:
Dr. Schatzberg has been an active investigator in the biology and psychopharmacology of depressive disorders. He has explored norepinephrine systems in depression as a means of subtyping these disorders. His research has also given us major insights into the biological mechanisms that underlie the development of delusions in major depression and is now opening exciting and innovative therapeutic strategies using glucocorticoid antagonists. Dr. Schatzberg has also been an active investigator in the clinical psychopharmacology of nondelusional depression with a particular recent interest in chronic depression and pharmacogenetics.

Any other information:
Dr Schatzberg has authored over 500 publications and abstracts, including the Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, whose sith edition was published in 2007 and which is co-authored by Dr. Jonathan O. Cole and Dr. Charles DeBattista. He also co-edited with Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff the Textbook of Psychopharmacology whose third edition appeared in late 2003. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychiatric Research and sits on many other editorial boards as well, including Archives of General Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety (Associate Editor-in-Chief), Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Biological Psychiatry and others.

He is a Past President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and is Secretary-General of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. He was awarded the 1998 Gerald L. Klerman, MD Lifetime Research Award from the NDMDA, the 2001 Gerald L. Klerman, MD Award from Cornell University Medical College, the 2001 Edward A. Strecker, MD Award from the University of Pennsylvania, the 2002 Mood Disorders Research Award from the American College of Psychiatrists, the 2002 American Psychiatric Association Award for Research, the Forum Award from the 3rd International Forum of Mood and Anxiety Disorders (IFMAD) in 2002, and the 2005 Distinguished Service in Psychiatry Award from the American College of Psychiatrists. In 2003, he was elected into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Psychiatry > Mood Disorders (since 17 March 2006)

Alan Schatzberg is a Section Head for Mood Disorders, part of the PSYCHIATRY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

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