Editorial Board
Medical Editor
Jan Fawcett, MD, a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine after 30 years of service as the Stanley Harris Sr. Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He has pursued a career of research in the treatment of affective disorders and the prevention of suicide since completing his fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Clinical Center in 1964.
Dr. Fawcett has been awarded the Dr. Jan Fawcett Humanitarian Award by the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (now the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance) and has been given lifetime research awards by the American Association of Suicidology and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He was also presented the Menninger Award in 2000 by the American College of Physicians for his research in mental health. In 2005, Dr. Fawcett shared the Falcone Prize for affective disorders research from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
He is currently a principal investigator of the Recurrent Depression Prevention with Medication and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy project, a five-year study funded by the NIMH at Rush Medical Center in collaboration with investigators at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-author of the American Psychiatric Association's Practice Guidelines Committee on the assessment and management of suicidal patients and is chairperson of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, (DSM-V) Mood Disorders Task Force.
Dr. Fawcett has always maintained an active clinical practice focusing on patients with treatment-resistant major affective disorders and continues to do so in his work as a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Jay Amsterdam, MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
William E. Bunney, Jr., MD
California College of Medicine
Irvine, California
Robert Cancro, MD
New York University Medical Center
New York, New York
Stanley N. Caroff, MD
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
John M. Davis, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Katherine A. Halmi, MD
New York Hospital
White Plains, New York
Paula Hensley, MD
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Robert J. Hilt, MD, FAAP
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, Washington
Robert Hirschfeld, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
Eric Hollander, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
Mady Hornig, MD
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York
Philip G. Janicak, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Lewis Judd, MD
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, California
Alan I. Levenson, MD
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, Arizona
Carl P. Malmquist, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
J. John Mann, MD
Columbia University
New York, New York
Norman S. Miller, MD
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Katharine J. Nelson, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deborah Newman, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD (Associate Editor and CME Coordinator)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Lorenzo Norris, MD
The George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia
Mark H. Pollack, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Robert M. Post, MD
Bipolar Collaborative Network
Bethesda, Maryland
Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Alan Schatzberg, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
William Scheftner, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
S. Charles Schulz, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Robert I. Simon, MD
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
Michael E. Thase, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania