David L. Dunner

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David L. Dunner (born May 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is a

anxiety disorders and their treatment. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 articles and more than 10 books.[1]

Career outline

Dunner went to

Bipolar II Disorder. Dunner notes that their influential 1976 paper on Bipolar II took six years to get published.[2]

He then went to New York for eight years to work with

psychotherapies compared to or combined with medication. He has remarked that he is disappointed they have not discovered the bipolar gene, which he and Elliot Gershon thought they would discover in the early 1970s.[2]

Titles and awards

Dunner has been president of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA), president of the Psychiatric Research Society and president of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He has been editor of the journal Comprehensive Psychiatry. He has won the Samuel Hamilton Award and the Morton Prince Award from the APPA, the Robert Jones Lectureship from the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the Ward Smith Award from the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry.[2]

Pharmaceutical controversies

Dunner was on a 1991 FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee which advised that there was not sufficient evidence to support a proposal that antidepressant drugs could cause suicidality or other violent behaviors. However, 5 of the 9 members had financial links to pharmaceutical companies and Dunner in particular had extensive financial links both before and after the hearings with Prozac manufacturer

SmithKlineBeecham (now GlaxoSmithKline).[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Center for Anxiety and Depression Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, Mercer Island
  2. ^ a b c DAVID L.DUNNER Interviewed by Thomas A. Ban for the ANCP, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 13, 2001
  3. ^ Lawyers and Settlements, Feb 12th 2008 Evelyn Pringle
  4. ^ Scandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies Sarah Boseley, health editor. The Guardian, Thursday 7 February