David Silbersweig
Dr. David Silbersweig is chairman of psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he also co-directs the center for the neurosciences. He was an academic dean at Harvard Medical School, and is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry there.
Until 2008, Silbersweig was vice chair for research within the department of
imaging the brains of patients with schizophrenia
and other major psychiatric disorders, identifying underlying brain circuit abnormalities.
Silbersweig has presented medical scientific information to the general public. He gave a presentation on
clinical depression for CBS. He has extensive involvement in higher education, and has published pieces on education and healthcare in the Washington Post and Boston Globe. Silbersweig is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell University
Medical College.
External links
- Information about a documentary in which Silbersweig participated
- education article
- academic medical center article
- higher education article