Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, and of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Glenn Jordan Treisman, MD, PhD, is the director of the AIDS Psychiatry Program and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been involved in the care of HIV-infected patients with psychiatric illness since early in the epidemic, and has raised awareness of mental illness associated with HIV and the barrier it creates to effective care.

Dr. Treisman is also a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in courses on neuroscience, psychiatry, pharmacology clinical skills, and the role of physicians in society, as well as a lecturer at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Treisman has been described as the father of AIDS psychiatry because of his groundbreaking work with HIV. He is known internationally for his presentations defending psychiatry and his vigorous commitment to patient care for underserved populations, such as HIV patients. Dr. Treisman is the author of The Psychiatry of AIDS as well as numerous articles on mental health issues associated with HIV.

In 2006, Dr. Treisman received the William C. Menninger Memorial Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Mental Health from the American College of Physicians. He has received the Chairman's Award for Teaching from the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His lectures on psychiatry and medical ethics have earned him numerous international invitations, such as the Mapother Lecture in London, England, and Findling Lecture at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Treisman earned his PhD in pharmacology and has a background in geriatric psychiatry. He has worked at the interface between medicine and psychiatry, and has become a noted clinical expert on depression, addiction, personality disorders, chronic pain, and the interaction between psychiatric disorders and medical illness.

 

Joyce E. King, MD
Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency
Franklin Square Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland

Joyce E. King, M.D., graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Dr. King then completed her residency training in family medicine at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland, serving as chief resident in family medicine. She completed additional training in colposcopy and cervical pathology as well as pediatric behavioral medicine to prepare her for faculty position in the family medicine residency program. Dr. King is the chairman of the Patient Care Advisory Committee at Franklin Square Hospital.

Dr. King is responsible for all of the inpatient training for family medicine residents at Franklin Square, and is Clinical Instructor for the Physical Diagnosis course for second year medical students from University of Maryland.

Dr. King has written many articles on psychiatric disorders in children and adults. She has taught board review courses for family medicine on the topics of attention deficit disorder in adolescents and adults, pharmacologic and clinical reviews of atypical antipsychotics, and the relevance of the primary care physician in the treatment of psychiatric disorders

 

Melvin G. McInnis, MD, FRCPsych
Thomas B. and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of
Bipolar Disorder and Depression
Section Director, Department of Psychiatry
Director of Prechter Bipolar Research Programs
Ann Arbor, MI

Melvin McInnis, MD, FRCPsych, is the Thomas B and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression, Professor of Psychiatry with the Department of Psychiatry and Depression Center at the University of Michigan.

Dr. McInnis is an established and internationally renowned researcher in the genetics of bipolar disorder. He has published widely in the field and is an active participant in one of the largest and longest standings collaborations in BP disorder that began as the NIMH Genetics Initiative for Bipolar Disorder. This endeavor (known colloquially as the "G11") now consists of collaboration between 11 universities within the USA and is dedicated to the genetics of BP disorder. Dr. McInnis' involvement began as a fellow genetics in 1989, at the time the collaboration between the 4 founding sites.

 

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director NIMH Bipolar Trials Network
Co-Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program
Associate Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Andrew Nierenberg, MD, graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York. He did his residency in psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital in New York City, where he became a chief resident, and then went on as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University to study clinical epidemiology. He continued his trek north to join the faculty at Harvard, and then to direct the Affective Disorders Outpatient Unit at McLean Hospital.

Dr. Nierenberg then joined the Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1992 where he is currently Associate Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program, Medical Director of the Bipolar Programs, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His primary interests are treatment resistant depression, management of antidepressant side effects, the longitudinal course of affective disorders, and pharmacoepidemiology.

 

Michael E. Thase, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Director, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Vice-Chairman, Advisory Board of the National Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Chicago, Illinois

Michael E. Thase, MD, is member of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic for more than 23 years, he, has recently joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Psychiatry. An active clinical investigator, Dr. Thase's research focuses on the assessment and treatment of mood disorders, including the correlates of differential response to various treatments for depression and bipolar affective disorder.

A 1979 graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Dr. Thase is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and has been elected to the membership of the American College of Psychiatrists and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Dr. Thase has authored or co-authored nearly 500 scientific articles and book chapters, as well as 15 books.