Authors

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS

Dr Lavretsky is a professor in residence in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is also on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Times.

Howard L. Forman, MD

Dr Forman is director of the Addiction Consultation Service at Montefiore and assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He serves as Psychiatric Times Book Review Editor.

James L. Knoll IV, MD

Dr Knoll is a professor of psychiatry and director of forensic psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He is also emeritus editor in chief of Psychiatric Times and clinical director of Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy.

John J. Miller, MD

Dr Miller is Medical Director, Brain Health, Exeter, New Hampshire; Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times; Voluntary Consulting Psychiatrist at Seacoast Mental Health Center, Exeter/Portsmouth, NH; Consulting Psychiatrist, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts.

Dr Luo is the director of Emergency & Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. He is on faculty as a health sciences clinical professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized educator and expert on behavioral health informatics. He has presented at numerous conferences, written books and articles on technology use in mental health, and he has been recognized locally and nationally for excellence in teaching.

John Torous, MD, MBI

Dr Torous is Director of the Division of the Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School.

Katharine Phillips, MD

Dr Phillips is a professor of psychiatry, DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar, and residency research director in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also an attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an adjunct professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Peter F. Buckley, MD

Dr Buckley is a psychiatrist and serves as Chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, and with health science campuses and affiliated partnerships across the state of Tennessee. He is a member of the Psychiatric Times Editorial Board.

Peter J. Weiden, MD

Dr Weiden is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York. He is Psychiatric Times' Schizophrenia and Psychosis Section Editor.

Philip R. Muskin, MD, MA, DLFAPA, LFACLP

Dr Muskin is a professor of psychiatry and senior consultant in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, New York. He is also a member of the Psychiatric Times Editorial Board.

Phillip J. Resnick, MD

Dr Resnick is a professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and has been a consultant on many high-profile cases, including those involving school shootings.

Dr Gopalan is an associate professor of psychiatry and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.

Renato D. Alarcón, MD, MPH

Dr Alarcón is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Honorio Delgado Chair, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú; and Editorial Board Member of Psychiatric Times.

Richard Balon, MD

Dr Balon is the associate department chair of psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and anesthesiology, associate chair of education and faculty affairs, and program director of the adult psychiatry residency program at Wayne State University.

Dr El-Mallakh is a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr El-Mallakh is a speaker for Idorsia, Indivior, Intracellular Therapies, Janssen, Lundbeck, Noven, Otsuka, Sunovion, and Teva.

Dr McIntyre is a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto and head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. He is also the executive director of the Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation and director and cochair of the scientific advisory board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. He is a professor and Nanshan Scholar at Guangzhou Medical University in China, an adjunct professor at Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul, a clinical professor at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine. He is the founder of the Canadian Rapid Treatment Centre of Excellence and CEO of Braxia Scientific Corp.

Ronald W. Pies, MD

Dr Pies is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Editor in Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times (2007-2010). Dr Pies is the author of several books, including several textbooks on psychopharmacology. A collection of his works can be found on Amazon.

Dr Hatters Friedman serves as the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is editor of Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate, which was written by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Committee on Psychiatry and the Law. She was awarded the 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association. She is a coeditor of Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry.

Thomas G. Gutheil, MD

Dr Gutheil is a professor of psychiatry and cofounder of the Program in Psychiatry and Law, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the first professor of psychiatry in the history of Harvard Medical School to be board certified in both clinical and forensic psychiatry. An internationally known forensic psychiatrist and author of over 300 publications in the national and international clinical and forensic literature, Gutheil has served as a consulting or expert witness in more than 40 states.

The recipient of every major award in the forensic field and multiple teaching and writing awards, he is also the recipient of the 2000 A. Clifford Barger Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, Harvard Medical School. Gutheil lives and works in the Boston area.

Thomas R. Kosten, MD

Dr Kosten is the Jay H. Waggoner Endowed Chair and cofounder at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is also a professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, pharmacology, and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Tony P. George, MD, FRCPC

Dr George is Professor of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a Clinician-Scientist at CAMH. He is also an editorial board member at Psychiatric Times, and co-principal editor of Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP), the Official Journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Dr Perman is clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC, and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dr Goldberg is a clinical professor of psychiatry at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY and the immediate-past president of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Nidal Moukaddam, MD, PhD

Dr Moukaddam is a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and the Director of Outpatient Psychiatry at Harris Health. She also serves on the Psychiatric Times Editorial Board.