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Paul Nestadt is the James Wah Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Center for Suicide Prevention in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a clinician, Dr. Nestadt attends on the inpatient dual diagnosis unit at Hopkins, directs the Anxiety Disorders consultation clinic, and helped found the esketamine clinic at Hopkins. His research into suicide prevention centers the roles of firearms, opioids, and large scale data analysis as well as qualitative interviews with grieving families. Dr. Nestadt is the chair of Maryland’s Suicide Fatality Review Committee and has written dozens of chapters for leading psychiatric and medical textbooks, almost 100 peer-reviewed papers, and has spoken nationally and internationally on the topics of suicide risk and the role of firearms, opiates, and the limitations of screening.

PubMed

Representative national survey on drug use during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in the USA.
Soo-Hoon Lee, Bernadette Cullen, Alison Athey, Calliope Holingue, Michelle R Kaufman
BMJ Open. 2025-03-07
Association of substance use with suicide mortality: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.
Alison Athey, Jaimie Shaff, Geoffrey Kahn, Kathryn Brodie, Taylor C Ryan
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports. 2025-03-01
Characterization of xylazine-related overdose deaths in Maryland (2020-2023).
Erin Y Wang, Rebecca Phipps, Stephanie A Dean, Ling Li, Danielle Nestadt
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2025-03-01

Journal Articles

Racial Differences in Statewide Suicide Mortality Trends in Maryland During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
Paul Nestadt, MD, JAMA Psychiatry