Myrna Weissman, PhD

Myrna WeissmanProfessor, Epidemiology and Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons and the School of Public Health
Columbia University

Chief, Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Dr. Weissman's current research is on epidemiology, detection, treatment; and the genetics of affective and anxiety disorders.

Until 1987, she was a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Yale University School of Medicine and Director of the Depression Research Unit. She was a Visiting Senior Scholar (1979-1980) at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

She has been a member of ADAA since the early 1980s.