- Jack Barchas
Jack Barchas, M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry at theWeill Cornell Medical College ofCornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of theNew York-Presbyterian Hospital /Weill Cornell Medical Center and thePayne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic . He is also on the research faculty of theColumbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research .A graduate of
Pomona College andYale Medical School, Dr. Barchas is the author or co-author of over 500 articles and ten textbooks. His research focus was on the relationship between neuroregulators and behavior. Most prominently, Barchas was the first to demonstrate that various types of neurotransmitters are altered differently by stress.Before arriving at Cornell, Barchas held senior positions at
Yale ,UCLA , andStanford . He is the former Editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry, perhaps the most prominent American psychiatric journal. Barchas is a member of theInstitute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, as is his wife, Dr. Rosemary Stevens. He is the winner of the 2006 Sarnat International Award in Mental Health from the Institute of Medicine. He is also a member ofNARSAD 's Scientific Council.
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