Sunday, February 19, 2012
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Medications: Integrated, Acute Treatment: Strategies and New Antipsychotics

Steven Marder, MD

Stephen R. Marder, M.D. received his A.B.from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D.from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After an internship at Denver General Hospital he completed a residency at the University of Southern California.  From 1975 to1977 he was a Clinical Associate in the Biological Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health.  In 1977 he joined the staff at the Brentwood VA Medical Center and the faculty at UCLA.

Dr. Marder's research has focused on the drug treatment of schizophrenia and the pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal articles and chapters based on research. The Schizophrenia Research Unit that he developed together with the late Theodore Van Putten has been an important site for training a number of psychiatrists who developed careers in research.  He has been a Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA since 1991. He is currently the Director of the VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education Clinical Center (MIRECC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Section on Psychosis at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience & Human Behavior at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  

Dr. Marder has received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Stanley Dean Research Award of the American College of Psychiatry, the Alexander Gralnick Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and the Kempf Award from the American Psychiatric Association.