Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Tufts University
Tufts University School of Medicine
Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is a psychiatrist and researcher with expertise in depression and bipolar illness, and training in philosophy and public health. He is Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University. He is the author of multiple books, most recently Clinical Psychopharmacology (Oxford University Press, 2019), winner of the Association of American Publishers 2020 PROSE award for excellence in the biological and life sciences, and also the New York Times bestseller, A First-Rate Madness (Penguin, 2011). He has published over 300 scientific articles or book chapters. He is an associate editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, on the editorial board of a number of journals, and active in numerous professional organizations. He also is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK).
Dr. Ghaemi has a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, completed medical and psychiatry residency training at Harvard in the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital programs, received a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Tufts University, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has worked at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in early drug discovery (2017-2021).
Debate: Is It ADHD or Something Else? Understanding Nuances of the Differential Diagnosis
Saturday, September 9, 2023
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM CT