ElliotS.GershonMD

Psychopharmacology

Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics at University of Chicago Med Center

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Chicago, IL 60637
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Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 1969 - 1970
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 1966 - 1969
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 1965 - 1966
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1965

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013

PubMed

1017 citations
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia.
Vassily Trubetskoy, Antonio F Pardiñas, Ting Qi, Georgia Panagiotaropoulou, Swapnil Awasthi
Nature. 2022-04-01
790 citations
Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores
Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Jian Yang, Hilary K. Finucane, Alexander Gusev, Sara Lindström
American Journal of Human Genetics. 2015-10-01
171 citations
Genomewide Linkage Analyses of Bipolar Disorder: A New Sample of 250 Pedigrees from the National Institute of Mental Health Genetics Initiative
Danielle M. Dick, Tatiana Foroud, Leah Flury, Elizabeth S. Bowman, Marvin J. Miller
American Journal of Human Genetics. 2003-07-01

S188. Emotional Processing in Bipolar Disorder with and Without Psychosis: Findings from the Psychosis and Affective Research Domains and Intermediate Phenotypes ConsortiumApril 2018
S188. Emotional Processing in Bipolar Disorder with and Without Psychosis: Findings from the Psychosis and Affective Research Domains and Intermediate Phenotypes ConsortiumApril 2018

Major Depression: The “Chemical Imbalance” Pillar Is Crumbling—Is the Genetics Pillar Next?August 31st, 2022

Multidisciplinary Psychiatry Genetics Training ProgramNational Institute Of Mental Health2007–2011
Genetic Linkage Studies In Bipolar Disorder FamiliesNational Institute Of Mental Health2005–2009
Collaborative Genetic Study Of Bipolar DisorderNational Institute Of Mental Health2004–2007
Multidiciplinary Psychiatric Genetics Training ProgramNational Institute Of Mental Health2002–2006
FINE Genomic Mapping Of 13q32 In Bipolar DisorderNational Institute Of Mental Health2002–2006
Genetic Linkage Studies In Bipolar DisordersNational Institute Of Mental Health2002–2003
Collaborative Study Of Bipolar DisorderNational Institute Of Mental Health1998–2001
Molecular Genetic Dissection Of Bipolar Affective DisorderNational Institute Of Mental Health1998–1999
Outpatient Clinic For Genetic And Pharmacologic Studies Of Affective DisorderNational Institute Of Mental Health1996–1998