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 Biography   Dennis S. Charney, M.D. Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs Mount Sinai School of Medicine Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Mount Sinai Medical Center Dr. Charney studies the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. His investigations have yielded fundamental contributions to the understanding of neural circuits, neurochemistry and functional neuroanatomy of the regulation of mood and anxiety and the psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to stress. He and his group seek new, more effective treatments for mood and anxiety disorders. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Charney was chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Program and the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the nation’s largest research group devoted to identifying the etiology of these disorders and discovering more effective treatment. Before that, he was professor of psychiatry and deputy chair of Academic and Scientific Affairs at the Yale University School of Medicine. He was the principal investigator of the Veterans Administration National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the NIMH Yale Mental Health Clinical Research Center. Among numerous national posts, he served on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee. Dr. Charney joined NARSAD’s Scientific Council in 1999. |
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