Our Principal Investigator
E. Sherwood Brown, MD, PhD, MBA
Dr. Brown is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry, the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research and Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Research, Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Chief of the Division of Clinical Neuroscience, and Director of the Psychoneuroendocrine Research Program at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Texas Christian University, an M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and completed his psychiatry residency and a research fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He completed an MBA, with Healthcare Organization Leadership Concentration, at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is board certified in psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry and is President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr. Brown serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and Journal of Affective Disorders, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dual Diagnosis. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on comorbidities of mood disorders including medical illness and substance abuse. He has had numerous grants from NIH and private foundations, including grants from NIAAA and NIDA examining the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence, a grant from NHLBI examining the treatment of depressed asthma patients, NIA exploring neurosteroid treatments for peri-menopausal depression and NIMH examining the effects of stress and corticosteroids on the human brain. He has published well over 200 research peer-reviewed articles, books, chapters, reviews, and editorials.
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