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, USA
• William E. Bunney, Jr., MD
  California College of Medicine
  University of California-Irvine
  Irvine, California, USA
• Katie A. Busch, MD (CME Coordinator)
  Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Robert Cancro, MD
  New York University Medical Center
  New York, New York, USA
• Stanley N. Caroff, MD
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• John M. Davis, MD
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Liza H. Gold, MD
  Georgetown University Medical Center
  Washington, D.C., USA
• Katherine A. Halmi, MD
  New York Hospital
  White Plains, New York, USA
• Paula Hensley, MD
  University of New Mexico School of Medicine
  Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
• Robert Hirschfeld, MD
  University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, Texas, USA
• Eric Hollander, MD
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  New York, New York, USA
• Mady Hornig, MD
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  New York, New York, USA
• Philip G. Janicak, MD
  Rush University Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Lewis Judd, MD
  University of California-San Diego
  La Jolla, California, USA
• Paul Keck, Jr., MD
  University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
• Alan I. Levenson, MD
  University of Arizona College of Medicine
  Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Carl P. Malmquist, MD
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• J. John Mann, MD
  Columbia University
  New York, New York, USA
• Susan McElroy, MD
  University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
• Norman S. Miller, MD
  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan, USA
• Deborah Newman, MD
  Mayo Clinic
  Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Mark H. Pollack, MD
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Robert M. Post, MD
  National Institute of Mental Health
  National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, Maryland, USA
• Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Gerald J. Sarwer-Foner, MD
  Wayne State University Medical School
  Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Alan Schatzberg, MD
  Stanford University School of Medicine
  Stanford, California, USA
• William Scheftner, MD
  Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Robert I. Simon, MD (Contemporary Psychiatry Editor)
  Georgetown University School of Medicine
  Washington, D.C., USA
• Michael E. Thase, MD
  Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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