Gregory A. Aarons, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: The interface of organization/management theory and implementation of innovation and evidence-based practice in mental health, social service, and medical settings, translational science.

Niloofar Afari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Chronic pain, twin studies, and acceptance-based treatments

Hagop Akiskal, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Chronic Depression, PTSD, Temperament, Bipolar Disorder

Natacha Akshoomoff, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Pediatric neuropsychology; Diagnostic and assessment practices for children with autistic spectrum disorders

E. Clark Allen, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Psychotherapy

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Sleep disorders research; chronobiology; geriatrics

Joseph Hampton Atkinson, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Chronic pain syndromes; depression associated with AIDS/HIV

Dewleen Baker, M.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Wayne A. Bardwell, Ph.D., M.B.A., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Links between physiological and psychosocial functioning in chronic medical illness (breast cancer, obstructive sleep apnea)

Mark W. Bondi, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology of aging and dementia

David L. Braff, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Psychophysiology, neuropsychology, and neurobiology of schizophrenia

Lauren Brookman-Frazee, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Mental health services for children with autistic spectrum disorders and disruptive behavior problems; parent training; clinician training and supervision

Gregory Brown, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Computational modeling and brain imaging, neuropsychological testing to assess neurobehavioral functioning

Sandra A. Brown, PH.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Adolescent and adult substance abuse research

Sandra J. Brown, Ph.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Child and adolescent neuropsychology

Kristin Cadenhead, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Schizophrenic spectrum illness-basic and clinical issues

Michael P. Caligiuri, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Movement disorders; biomedical instrumentation; Parkinsonism; neuroleptics; motor control, functional MRI

Pollyanna Casmar, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Clinical research in behavioral medicine, mindfulness and meditation, interpersonal therapy

Gabrielle M. Cerda, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Children's Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry

Denise Chavira, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Anxiety disorders, cognitive behavior therapy, ethnic minority mental health, health services research

Mariana Cherner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurocognitive consequences of HIV, stimulant abuse, and Hepatitis C. Cross-cultural neuropsychological assessment

Camellia P. Clark, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Imaging, sleep research, affective disorders, depression

Robert E. Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Investigates the organization and neurological foundations of learning and memory.

David Deitch, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Substance abuse, Therapeutic Communities

Dean C. Delis, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychological function in neurologic and psychiatric patients

Colin Depp, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Psychosomatic medicine and effects of stress

Neal R. Doran, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Adolescent and
Adult Substance Abuse Research

Sean P. Drummond, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Sleep loss on brain function, behavioral sleep medicine

Jennifer J. Dunkin, Ph.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Ian Paul Everall Bsc (Hons) MB ChB (Hons) MRCPsych FRCPath PhD, Professor - Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Investigates the cellular and molecular neuropathology of disorders relevant to psychiatry.

Lisa Eyler, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Understanding and improving cognitive deficits among patients with schizophrenia.

David Feifel, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropeptides and behavior; adult attention deficit

Christine Fennema-Notestine, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Cognitive neuroscience; neuroimaging of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders; biomedical informatics

Vincent Filoteo, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience of attention, categorization, and memory

David Folsom, M.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Ann Garland, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Effectiveness of youth mental health services mental health services by children and adolescents

Mark A. Geyer, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Behavioral function of monoamines; human and rat startle response

Tamar H. Gollan, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology, bilingualism, language production

Eric Granholm, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology and psychophysiology of schizophrenia

Igor Grant, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurobehavioral aspects of HIV/AIDS and alcoholism; life stress and illness

Tiffany A. Greenwood , Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Psychiatric genetics

Richard L. Hauger, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuroendocrinology of stress and psychostimulants

Robert K. Heaton, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology; HIV encephalopathy; schizophrenia

Ellen K. Heyneman, M.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Eating disorders and mood disorders in children and adolescents

Amy J. Jak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology of aging and traumatic brain injury

Janis H. Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Cultural psychiatry, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders (especially psychological trauma), Latinos, ethnicity, gender, immigrants and refugees, violence, and qualitative methods.

Terry L. Jernigan, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Radiology
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Brain imaging of cognitive and psychiatric disorders; aging and memory research

Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Geropsychiatry; late-onset psychoses; dementia; tardive dyskinesia

Lewis L. Judd, M.D., Mary Gilman Marston Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry - Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Clinical, epidemiological, and treatment studies of mood and anxiety disorders

Patricia H. Judd, Ph.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurocognitive deficits in Borderline Personality Disorder

Walter H. Kaye, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Eating Disorders

John R. Kelsoe, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Molecular biological approaches to psychiatric disorders

Daniel S. Kim, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Geriatric psychiatry, capacity to consent in schizophrenia, trauma in serious mental illness

Igor Koutsenok, M.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Substance abuse and addictive behavior and treatment

William S. Kremen, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Research programs on schizophrenia and aging

Daniel F. Kripke, M.D., Professor Emeritus
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Chronobiology; light exposure and treatment; sleep

Ronald Kuczenski, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychopharmacology of stimulants; in vivo microdialysis

Ariel J. Lang, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Anxiety and trauma, emotional disorders in the general medical setting

Barry Lebowitz, M.D., Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Saul Levine, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Adolescent's belief systems; resiliency of youth

Gregory Light, Ph.D, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Auditory sensory processing deficits in schizophrenia

Laurie A. Lindamer, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Schizophrenia, neuropsychology and psychotic disorders, health issues in older adults with psychosis

James B. Lohr, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Schizophrenia and movement disorders research

Carrie R. McDonald, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

John R. McQuaid, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Thomas Marcotte, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology of HIV infection and other dementing disorders

Athina Markou, Ph.D. Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurobiology of drug dependence, depression and schizophrenia.

Jack D. Maser, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Grants Facilitator. Spectrum Concepts in Nosology; Anxiety, Mood and Personality Disorders.

Scott Matthews, M.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Brent T. Mausbach, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Stress/coping; Alzheimer’s caregiving; behavioral medicine; functional outcomes in schizophrenia

Jeffrey E. Max, MBBCh (M.D.), Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Child and adolescent psychiatry, Pediatric Traumatic Brain and Stroke Research

Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurobiology of Human Cognition

Thomas W. Meeks, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Geriatric Psychiatry, Depression and Chronic Pain, Latino Mental Health Issues, Successful Aging

Jonathan M. Meyer, M.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Metabolic issues with antipsychotic therapy, Schizophrenia and other chronic mental disorders

Paul J. Mills, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Stress; adrenergic function; menstrual physiology; behavioral medicine

Arpi Minassian, Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

David Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: clinical psychology specializing in neuropsychological and everyday functioning assessments

Christine Y. Moutier, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Mood disorders, women’s mental health, and the interface between medical and psychiatric illness

Mark G. Myers, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Substance abuse in adolescents

Hoang A. Nguyen, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Marc A. Norman, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychological Assessment, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy

Sonya Norman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Etiology, Assessment, PTSD, Alcohol/Substance use Disorder

Barton Palmer, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology, decision-making capacity, late life psychoses, cognitive assessment

Barbara L. Parry, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Depression; chronobiology; premenstrual, postpartum, menopausal and seasonal mood disorders

Thomas Patterson, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Life events

Martin P. Paulus, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Nonlinear dynamics, behavioral neuropsychopharmacology

William Perry, Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology of schizophrenia

Susan Powell, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Valerie A. Rice, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Victoria Risbrough, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Anxiety; PTSD; Translational preclinical psychopharmacology and clinical psychophysiology

Shannon Robinson, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Uses both cognitive behavioral therapy and psychopharmacology in the treatment of depression and anxiety in the medical conditions.

Thomas Rutledge, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Impact of mood and behavioral factors on chronic disease, particularly cardiovascular disease.

Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Genetic basis of complex diseases, statistical and mathematical modeling

Marc A. Schuckit, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Alcoholism; family and genetic studies

Andres Sciolla, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

R. Christopher Searles, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Terry Schwartz, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Adult psychiatry, with sub-specialization in: eating disorders, dual disorders, and mood disorders.

Daniel Sewell, M.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: HIV psychiatry; geropsychiatry; neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Stephen R. Shuchter, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Emeritus
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Grief, bereavement, and depression

Alan Simmons, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Posttraumatic Stress disorders/Traumatic Brain Injury

Mounir Soliman, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Clinical psychopharmacology for schizophrenia and mood disorders.

James L. Spira, PhD, MPH, ABPP, Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: 1) Determining psychophysiological biomarkers psychological problems;2) Innovative Treatments for PTSD, traumatic brain injury and other military operational problems; 3) Experiential Therapies: Meditation, Hypnosis, Relaxation.

Larry R. Squire, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurobiology of memory

Murray Stein, M.D., Professor, M.P.H.
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neurobiology of anxiety disorders

Irina Strigo, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Relationship between Chronic Pain and Psychiatric Disorders

Neal Swerdlow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Limbic system-basal ganglia function in mental illness

Susan F. Tapert, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Substance use disorders, neuroimaging, neuropsychological assessment, and adolescent development.

Michael Taylor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Wesley R. Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor In-Residence
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Development of Statistical Models for Psychiatric Disorders/Healthy Cognitive Aging

Steven R. Thorp, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); cognitive functioning of older and younger veterans with PTSD; psychotherapy outcome research; provision of treatment via telemedicine (videoconferencing)

Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry - Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Human genetics; behavior and neuropsychiatric diseases; family-genetic studies of psychiatric disorders; the genetic heterogeneity of schizophrenia.

Eric Turner, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Molecular genetics of central nervous system development

Elizabeth Twamley, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Focuses on bridging neuropsychology and interventions for individuals with schizophrenia.

James W. Varni, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Tamara Wall, Ph.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Etiology of alcoholism-genetic and environmental vulnerability factors

David K. Welsh, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Circadian clocks

Julie Wetherell, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Treatment of late-life anxiety.

Christina Wierenga, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia

Steven P. Woods, Psy.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Cognitive neuropsychology of HIV-1 disease

Edwin K. Yager, Ph.D., Clinical Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Tony Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization:

Sidney Zisook, M.D., Professor
Faculty Research Interest/Specialization: Psychopharmacology of depression and schizophrenia; bereavement; PTSD