Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics to be Subject of 32nd Annual Biele Lecture at Jefferson
David A. Mrazek,
M.D., F.R.C. Psych. is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
at the Mayo Clinic, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Mayo
Clinic College of Medicine.
Dr. Mrazek
previously held the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of
Psychiatry at
George
Washington University
Medical Center
where he was the Leon Yochelson Professor of Psychiatry.
At Mayo, Dr.
Mrazek has initiated a psychiatric pharmacogenomic research program and
implemented clinical psychiatric pharmacogenomic services.
Dr. Mrazek is the principal investigator of
the SSRI Pharmacogenomic Project within the NIH funded Pharmacogenetics
Research Network and a Developing Alcohol Research Center funded by the NIAAA.
He also serves as the Director of the S.C. Johnson Genomics of Addictions
Program at the Mayo Clinic and is the author of a new textbook published by
Oxford University Press entitled, “Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics”.
Dr. Mrazek earned
his B.A. Cum Laude at
Cornell University and his M.D. at
Wake Forest
University.
He completed a residency in general
psychiatry at the
University
of Cincinnati and a
fellowship in child psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical
Center.
He subsequently became a
Lecturer in Child Psychiatry at the
Institute
of
Psychiatry in
London.
Dr. Mrazek has
received numerous awards including the Simon Wile Award from the
American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Creativity in Psychiatric Education
from the
American
College of Psychiatry,
and the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in
Child Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the
American
College of Psychiatrists and the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent
psychiatry.
He also serves as the
Chairman of the Board of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
The Biele
lectureship was created in 1979 to honor Dr. Albert M. Biele, an outstanding
Jefferson physician, scholar and psychiatry professor and friend to many at
Jefferson. The lecture was endowed by the Biele family
and members of the Jefferson Medical College Department of Psychiatry and Human
Behavior.
The Biele Lecture committee
is chaired by Karl Doghramji, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior,
Thomas Jefferson University,
and director of the
Jefferson
Sleep Disorders Center.
For further information, call Ms
Carolyn Little at 215-955-6104.
Media Only Contact:
Ed Federico
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Phone: (215) 955-6300
Published: 3/23/2010