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Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D., is Research Professor of Psychiatry at The George Washington University He is additionally Director of the Psychopharmacology Research Center at the University and the Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress, and Society at the George Washington University Medical Center. He is a specialist in manic-depressive illness.
   He received his M.D. from St. Louis University, and was a psychiatric resident at the University. of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Before coming to Georgetown, Dr. Goodwin was previously Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), from 1981 to 1988. Earlier, he was head of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. He is known in particular for having been the first to report a controlled study on the antidepressant effects of lithium.
   He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the ACNP. He is a founder of the journal Psychiatry Research, and on the editorial boards of a number of other journals.

awards

  • Hofheimer Prize from the American Psychiatric Association
  • International Anna-Monika Prize for Research in Depression
  • Edward A. Strecker Award,
  • Lieber Prize from NARSAD,
  • McAlpin Award,
  • Distinguished Service Award from NAMI,
  • Research Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
  • first recipient of the Psychiatrist of the Year from Psychiatric Times, and the
  • first recipient of the Fawcett Humanitarian Award of the NDMDA.
  • President of the Psychiatric Research Society, 1988

Publications

With K. R. Jamison, he wrote Manic-Depressive Illness, qiu the first psychiatric text to win the Best Medical Book award from the Association of American Publishers. He has also written over 400 scientific papers, and is listed on the Current Contents list of the most frequently cited scientists in the world
   In addition, Dr. Goodwin is the host of the The Infinite Mind, n award winninga one hour national weekly public radio program on the mind, the brain, and mental illness. Carried in more than 170 marketsit has an estimated 500,000 listeners.

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