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BIOGRAPHY
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Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Director The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine La Jolla, California |
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Barry Lebowitz, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine (UCSD). He moved to UCSD in 2005 after a nearly 30-year career at the National Institute of Mental Health where he last served as Chief of the Geriatrics Research Branch. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Dr Lebowitz is a graduate of McGill University and Cornell University. He was elected a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and an honorary fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. The recipient of a number of awards, Dr Lebowitz was most recently honored with the M. Powell Lawton Award of the Gerontological Society of America. Dr Lebowitz has served on the active or adjunct faculty of several universities. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of scientific and professional journals and is the editor or co-editor of several books and author or co-author of many articles in mental health and aging. |
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