Position:
Professor at Washington University School of Medicine
Work:
Washington University School of Medicine
since Jul 1996
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Professor
Education:
Duke University School of Medicine 1986 - 1990
M.D., medicine
Brigham Young University 1980 - 1986
B.S., mathematics
Brookland-Cayce HIgh School 1976 - 1980
Skills:
Neuroimaging, Movement Disorders, fMRI, MRI, Neuroscience, PET, Clinical Research, Medical Education, Psychiatry, Science, Research, Neurology, Scientific Writing, Medical Imaging, Medicine
Interests:
Portuguese: Read, write, speak.
I lived in Brazil for 15 months, read a few novels and the entire Bible (João Ferreira de Almeida translation), and later did paid part-time Portuguese-to-English translation for a year or so. I still regularly read and listen to Portuguese.
Spanish: Read, write.
Fluency and spoken vocabulary are only fair, but grammar and accent are good and I can read anything.
Esperanto: Read.
I have read several novels in Esperanto.
Honor & Awards:
1990-91, 1991-92 Voted Outstanding Teaching Resident for psychiatry by WU medical students
1993 Mead Johnson Fellow in Academic Psychiatry, Association for Academic Psychiatry
1993 Southern Psychiatric Association Annual Award for Psychiatrists in Training
1994 Upjohn Resident Research Award, WU Department of Psychiatry
10/1995 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) certification, Psychiatry (8/2005 passed 10-year recertification exam)
10/1996 ABPN, Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry
1996-1998, 1999-2001 NARSAD Young Investigator Award (twice)
12/2001 ACNP / Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award
2005-2010 Elected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America®
1/2006 Named a Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association
9/2006 Hope Award from the St. Louis chapter of the Huntington Disease Society of America
9/2006 (first group ever certified) United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS.org) certification in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
Languages:
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Esperanto
Certifications:
Psychiatry, ABPN (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology)
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS)
Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry, ABPN (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology)
Medicine, Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts