Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (pending voluntary appointment)
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Peter J. Weiden, M.D., biosketch for 36th Annual Psych Congress
Peter J. Weiden MD is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of persons with severe psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. His entire professional career has focused on improving outcomes this population. Dr. Weiden has published widely on practical approaches that can make a difference to patients. Some examples include how to lower the side effect burden of medication, how to safely switch antipsychotic medications, and what to expect and how to discuss the use of long-acting antipsychotic formulations, and how to approach "first episode" schizophrenia patients. His experience with new therapies goes way back to the approval of clozapine in 1989 to working on the current pipeline of investigational medications that no longer rely on the dopamine receptor for their efficacy.
Dr. Weiden has been a Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center (1999-2007) and UIC Medical Center (2007-13) and joined the pharmaceutical industry in 2016 until early 2023 where he worked on new treatments for schizophrenia. He has recently returned to the academic setting to resume his specialty focus on schizophrenia. He recently joined the faculty at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine (pending).
For many years Dr. Weiden was a faculty member at USPC and is very much looking forward to returning to the USPC family as a faculty member for thie 36th Annual Psychiatric Congress Meeting. See you there!
State of the Science: Focus on Schizophrenia
Friday, September 8, 2023
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT