Email: robert_mcclure@med.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 843-6629






Education:

B.A.S., Biology, Psychology, Stanford University
M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine
Internship, Pediatrics, UNC Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics
Residency, Psychiatry, UNC Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry
Post-doctoral fellowship: Schizophrenia and Neuroimaging, National Institutes of Mental Heath

Summary Statement:

Dr. McClure is a board-certified general adult psychiatrist with clinical expertise in the management of schizophrenia and psychotic disorders. Clinical responsibilities include call at UNC, attending on the UNC Psychotic Disorders Unit and seeing outpatients in the VGFW Mental Health System.  Dr. McClure has scientific expertise that includes the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of neuroimaging data in schizophrenia. His scientific interests include the use of neuroimaging measures for studying the genetics of schizophrenia.

Representative Publications:

1. Styner, M, Lieberman, JA, McClure RK, Weinberger, DR, Jones, DW, Gerig, G. Morphometric analysis of lateral ventricles in schizophrenia and healthy controls regarding genetic and disease-specific factors. PNAS (in press)
2. Weinberger, DR and McClure, RK, “Neurotoxicity, Neuroplasticity, and MRI Morphometry: What’s happening in the schizophrenic brain?”, Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, pp 553-558, June.
3. McClure, RK and Lieberman, JL, “The Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Hypothesise of Schizophrenia. A Review of the Evidence”Current Opinion in Psychiatry, in press.
4. McClure, RK and Weinberger, DR “The Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia, A Review of the Evidence” in “Current Issues in the Psychopharmacology of Schizophrenia”, Lippincott, William and Wilkins, 2001.
5. Alfaro CL. McClure RK. Vertrees JE. Benavides R. Unanticipated plasma concentrations in two clozapine-treated patients. Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 35(9):1028-31, 2001 Sep. 1028-31.