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Mark Zimmerman, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University
Brown University

Mark Zimmerman, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Chief of Ambulatory Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at South County Psychiatry.

Dr. Zimmerman received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and his medical degree from Chicago Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and held an academic appointment as assistant professor at the same time he was a resident in psychiatry.

Dr. Zimmerman is principal investigator of the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project. The MIDAS project has been ongoing for more than 25 years. The goal of the MIDAS project has been to integrate research methodology into routine clinical practice in order to improve clinical practice. By developing a large data-base containing symptom ratings and diagnoses based on semi-structured interviews, Dr. Zimmerman and colleagues were able to examine the generalizability of antidepressant efficacy trials by applying their exclusion criteria to patients evaluated in routine clinical practice.

Dr. Zimmerman is the author of more than 450 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the editorial board of 10 journals. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders. Dr. Zimmerman was the Personality Disorders section editor for DSM-5-TR. He has developed several measures of psychiatric disorders for use in clinical practice. He is the author of the Interview Guide to Diagnose DSM-5-TR Psychiatric Disorders and the Mental Status Examination.

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