Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Alan F. Schatzberg received his M.D. from New York University in 1968. He did his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center from 1969-1972 and was Chief Resident, Southard Clinic in 1971-1972. He was also a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
After serving in the United States Air Force, he joined the staff at McLean Hospital and the Faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1974. At McLean Hospital, he held a number of important positions including Service Chief, Interim Psychiatrist in Chief, Co-Director of the Affective Disorders Program (with Dr. J. Cole) and Director of the Depression Research Facility. In 1988, he became Clinical Director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School but continued at McLean Hospital with his researchDr. Schatzberg's research has 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.  |
Dr. Schatzberg has been an active investigator in the biology and psychopharma-cology 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. Dr. Schatzberg has been an active investigator in the clinical psychopharmacology of nondelusional depression with a particular recent interest in chronic depression. He has authored over 450 publications and abstracts, including the Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, whose third edition was published in 1997 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 second edition was published in 1998. He is Co-Editor in-Chief of the Journal of Psychiatric Research and sits on many other editorial boards as well, including the American Psychiatric Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety (Associate Editor in Chief), Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and others. He currently is President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and was awarded the 1998 Gerald L. Klerman, M.D. Lifetime Research Award from the NDMDA.