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 Biography   Jan A. Fawcett, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Santa Fe Professor of Psychiatry University of New Mexico Medical Center, Albuquerque Dr. Fawcett’s career has been devoted to research and treatment of affective disorders and the prevention of suicide. Before assuming his current post, he worked for 30 years at Rush Medical College, in Chicago, where he was Stanley Harris, Sr. Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. He is a principal investigator of the Recurrent Depression Prevention with Medication and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy project, a five-year National Institute of Mental Health study being conducted at Rush in collaboration with investigators at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fawcett helped found the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (now the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance), which created and presented him with the Dr. Jan Fawcett Humanitarian Award. Among his efforts to help educate the public on mental illness, he was a co-author of the book “New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder.” A member of NARSAD’s Scientific Council since its inception in 1986, he received NARSAD’s Falcone Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Affective Disorders Research in 2005. |
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