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Title: Associate Professor, Carol Cochran Schaffner Endowed Chair in Mental Health
Education:
UCLA, MD, PhD
Postgraduate Training:
Columbia University, Psychiatry Residency and Research Fellowship
Biography Summary:
My primary research interests involve understanding the biology of mood and anxiety disorders. The approach we use in my group utilizes genetic tools to figure out how genes influence the susceptibility to disorders like depression, bipolar disorder, and panic disorder. We focus on examining the DNA sequence of persons with these disorders in hopes of discovering alterations that tell us something about the genes that change the risk for developing depression, bipolar disorder, or panic. This will allow us to understand the underlying biology, as well as provide tools for potentially providing better clinical predictors of diagnosis and treatment response.
Clinical Expertise:
psychopharmacology of anxiety and affective disorders
Educational Expertise:
psychopharmacology and human molecular genetics
Research Areas:
psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenomics and genomics
Administrative Assistant: Jody Williams - Contact Information
Campus Location: Parnassus
Publications on PubMed »
Consultation and Brief Intervention ServiceDepression Center at Langley PorterWomen's and Teen Girl's Mood and Hormone ClinicMolecular Approaches to Mental Health Fellowship Program