Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP
Yeargan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics
Director, Center for Psychiatric Genomics
Director, Suicide Prevention Institute
Areas of Interest
Women's Mood Disorders, Suicide Prevention, Genetics
About
Dr. Sullivan is the Yeargan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. His lab investigates the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (including post-partum depression), eating disorders, and autism. With funding from the Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, he has recently launched the UNC Center for Psychiatric Genomics. Dr. Sullivan is a founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, the largest consortium in the history of psychiatry. He is involved in a wide range of genomic studies of human diseases and has multiple NIH grants. Dr. Sullivan has published over 320 papers and 40 reviews/chapters.
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BS
University of Notre Dame
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MD
University of California, San Francisco