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Michael E. Thase, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania SOM
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania SOM

Michael E. Thase is a member of the medical and research staff of the Corporal Michael J Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. A 1979 graduate of The Ohio State University College Medicine, he rose to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry and was Chief of the Division of Academic Adult Psychiatry when he moved to Philadelphia in 2007. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Professor Thase is renowned as a teacher, mentor, administrator, researcher and clinician. He has been elected to the membership of the American College of Psychiatrists and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 2019, he was elected to the membership of Penn Medicine’s Academy of Master Clinicians, an honor bestowed to only 2% of the medical faculty. He is the immediate Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a member of advisory boards for the Anxiety and Depressive Disorders Association, the National Network of Depression Centers, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. One of the world’s most highly cited psychiatrists, Professor Thase’s 900+ scholarly peer reviewed publications include a number of citation classics. The award-winning Learning Cognitive Therapy is among the 18 books that Professor Thase has authored, co-authored or co-edited.

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