Jack Barchas

Jack Barchas, M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He is also on the research faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

A graduate of Pomona College and Yale 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, and Stanford. He is the former Editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry, perhaps the most prominent American psychiatric journal. Barchas is a member of the Institute 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 of NARSAD's Scientific Council.