StuartYudofskyMD

Summary

• Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine. In January, 2016 Dr. Yudofsky retired as the Distinguished Service Professor, with tenure, and Chairman and the Beth K. and Stuart C. Yudofsky Presidential Chair in Neuropsychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Baylor College of Medicine; and as Chairman of the Psychiatry Department of The Houston Methodist Hospital—positions he held for almost 25 years. In addition, he is President of Yudofsky Consulting and engages in the private practice of adult psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. Prior to moving to Houston in 1991 with his wife Beth, who is also a psychiatrist, Dr. Yudofsky was tenured Professor, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago and Chief of Psychiatric Services for The University of Chicago Hospital System. Previously, he was founding director of the psychiatry department of Allegheny General Hospital and director of psychiatric research at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute. For 14 years he was on the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was Associate Professor, Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Director and Deputy Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Yudofsky is an active clinician and consultant, who also treats patients and has consulted to governments, institutions, and businesses--nationally and internationally. Dr. Yudofsky's research and clinical practice focus in two areas: psycho-pharmacology (the use of medications to treat mental illnesses) and neuropsychiatry (the treatment of mood and behavioral changes associated with brain disorders such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and traumatic brain injury). For 28 years, he served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, official journal of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.