Murray B. Stein MD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive
Medicine
8939 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 200
La Jolla, CA 92037
PHONE #: 858-534-6400
FAX #: 858-534-6460
E-mail:
mstein@ucsd.edu
Biography
Murray B Stein MD, MPH, FRCPC is Professor of Psychiatry and
Family & Preventive Medicine at the University of California
San Diego (UCSD), where he directs the Anxiety & Traumatic
Stress Disorders Program. Dr. Stein graduated from the
University of Manitoba and completed his residency and
post-residency fellowship at the University of Toronto and
at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda,
Maryland, USA. He subsequently completed a Master of Public
Health degree at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
Dr. Stein is a member of the Board of Directors and the
Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety Disorders
Association of America (ADAA), a Fellow of the American
College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), and Deputy Editor
for Anxiety for the journal Depression & Anxiety. Dr. Stein
chaired the American Psychiatric Association Workgroup to
Revise the Panic Disorder Treatment Guidelines (2006-2008).
He is currently Scientific Chair of the NIMH Interventions
in Mood and Anxiety (ITMA) Review Group (2006-2009) and a
member of the DSM-V Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum,
Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group.
Research Focus
Dr. Stein’s research interests include the epidemiology,
neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety disorders especially
social phobia, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress
disorder. He has written or co-written over 300 peer-reviewed
scientific articles on these topics, including publications in
journals such as The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical
Association, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Archives of
General Psychiatry. He is co-editor, with Martin Antony PhD, of
the Oxford Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders (2009). His
federally funded research includes studies of interventions for
anxiety disorders in primary care, pharmacological approaches to
treatment-resistant anxiety disorders, and functional
neuroimaging research in anxiety and trauma-related disorders.
He is Principal Investigator and Director of the Department of
Defense-funded (2008-2013) INTRuST (INjury and TRaumatic STress)
Consortium, which will study treatments for Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Selected Publications
- Stein MB & Walker JR. Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering
Shyness and Social Anxiety. McGraw Hill, New York NY, 2002
(paperback in 2003)
- Roy-Byrne PP, Craske MG, Stein MB: Panic disorder.
Lancet 368:1023-1032, 2006
- Stein MB, Kerridge C, Dimsdale JE, Hoyt DB.
Pharmacotherapy to prevent PTSD: Results from a randomized
controlled proof of-concept trial in physically injured
patients. J Trauma Stress 20:923-932, 2007
- Stein MB & Stein DJ. Social anxiety disorder. Lancet
371:1115-1125, 2008
- Smoller JW, Paulus MP, Fagerness JA, Purcell S, Yamaki
LH, Hirshfeld-Becker D, Biederman J, Rosenbaum JF, Gelernter
J, Stein MB. Influence of RGS2 on anxiety-related
temperament, personality, and brain function. Arch Gen
Psychiatry 65:298-308, 2008
- Antony MM, Stein MB (editors). Handbook of Anxiety
Disorders. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2009
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