2007
Author : "Anticancer – A new way of life" - An
autobiographical account and scientific review of natural prevention approaches
to cancer, and supports for treatment. Published by Viking (Part of the
Penguin
Group) in the US, and Penguin Press in the UK, Scribe in
Australia and New Zealand and Harper Collins in Canada. New York Times and
international best-seller, sold over one million copies in 33 languages.
2004
“Healing without Freud or Prozac, natural approaches to
curing stress, anxiety and depression”, published by Rodale. 1.3 million copies
sold worldwide, 28 translations.
From 2001
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh,
School of Medicine
1999-2001
Medical Director, Center for Complementary Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
1997-2001
Chief, Division of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital
Director, Behavioral Sciences Curriculum, Internal Medicine
and Family Practice Residency Programs
1997-1999
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Director of Psychiatric Services, Center for Complementary
Medicine
1996
Coordinator, Geriatric Consultation-Liaison, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center
1993-1996
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh, Services of Consultation-Liaison and Geriatric
Psychiatry
1991-1996
Co-Director, Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory,
University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
1990-1996
Adjunct Research Scientist, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
1990-1993
Residency in Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and
Clinic, University of
Pittsburgh (including chief resident in Consultation-Liaison
Psychiatry)
1990
Ph.D, Cognitive Science in Medicine (Cognitive
Neuroscience), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
1985-87
Fellowship, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Western
Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and School of Computer Science, Carnegie
Mellon University
1984-85
Bi-disciplinary internship, Internal Medicine and
Psychiatry, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Canada
1983-84
M.D., School of Medicine, Laval University, Canada
1978-1982
Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université de
Paris, France (Pre-med and basic sciences)
1977
Baccalaureat with honors, Mathematics & Physics,
Académie de Paris,
2000
Certified Instructor, EMDR International Association
1995
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology
1985
M.D. License, State of Pennsylvania
M.D. License, Paris, France
1984
Licenciate of the Medical Council of Canada
2005
William Cooper award - Hillman Cancer Center, University of
Pittsburgh
2002
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society Presidential Award for
Outsanding Career in Psychiatry
2000
UPMC Shadyside Hospital Recognition Award
1995
Mead Johnson Award, American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology
1994
Young Investigator Award, National Association for Research
in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
Research Scientist Career Development Award, National
Institute of Mental Health
1993
Fellow of the Summer Institute of the McDonnell-Pew
Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience
1992
Laughlin Fellow of the American College of
Psychiatrists
1991
Outstanding Resident in Psychiatry Award, National Institute
of Mental Health
1989
Lauréat de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris
1988
Individual Fellowship Award, National Institute of Mental
Health
1984
Award of Best Paper, Joint National Congress of the American
Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
2001
EMDR Institute Trainer
2000
Instructor, EMDR-International Association, Level I & II
Training, Univ. of Pittsburgh and McGill University
1999
Workshop Coordinator, "Recognizing and managing
somatization" Society for General Internal Medicine, 22nd Meeting, April 27-30,
San Francisco, CA
1998
Workshop Coordinator, "Recognizing and managing
somatization" Society for General Internal Medicine, 21th Meeting, April 22-25,
Chicago, IL
Workshop Coordinator, "Medical Aspects of Informed Consent,"
Pennsylvania’s Governor Conference on Aging Issues, Hershey, PA
1997
Workshop Coordinator, "Treating Somatization Disorders,"
Society for Teachers in Family Medicine, North East Regional Meeting, Oct.
16-19, Pittsburgh, PA
Workshop Coordinator, "The Somatizing Patient," Society for
General Internal Medicine, 20th Meeting, May 1-3, Washington, DC
1993-1997
Instructor, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Lecture
Series
1996
Supervisor of clinical fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry,
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
1995-96
Mentor, NIMH Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Training
Program in Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Clinical and research mentor of residents in General
Psychiatry, research track, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
1994-96
Instructor in General Psychiatry, Family Practice Residency
Training Program, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Instructor in General Psychiatry, Internal Medicine
Residency Training Program, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
1993-96
Supervision of Honors-Track Cognitive Science undergraduate
student
1994
Instructor, Integrated Case Studies Course, School of
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Instructor in General Psychiatry, Second Year Curriculum,
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
1992
Organized and taught two-month weekly seminar on Neural
Network Modeling for Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychology Research,
Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco, VA Medical Center
Co-director and faculty of course Introduction to Neural
Modeling in Psychiatry, 145th Mechanisms of Cognition", Research Scientist
Development Award (K21), NIMH
1991
Director and faculty of invited course Neural Networks in
Psychiatry, Hopital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
Co-director and faculty of course A Primer on Neural
Modeling in Psychiatry, 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric
Association, Washington, DC
1990
Co-director and faculty of course A Primer on Neural
Modeling in Psychiatry, 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric
Association, New York, NY
1989
Co-director and faculty of symposium Neural Networks in
Psychiatry, 142nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San
Francisco, CA
1989-90
Organized and taught graduate and advanced undergraduate
course Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA
1982
Founder of Teaching and Research Center for the Application
of Personal Computers to Medicine ; instructor of tutorial course Introduction
to Computer Programming, Faculté de Médecine, Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris,
France
2000-2002
Principal Investigator, Pilot Study of Electro-Acupuncture
in Post Operative Pain, Shadyside Hospital Foundation
Principal Investigator, The Role of a Same Suppository in
Mood Enhancement, Shadyside Hospital Foundation
2000-2001
Principal Investigator, Group Treatment of Somatoform
Disorders, Beckwith Foundation
1999-2001
Principal Investigator, Mechanism of EMDR : A double-blind,
randomized, placebo-controlled study. Competitive Research Grant, Shadyside
Hospital Foundation
1997-2000
Co-Investigator, HRSA Grant for Residency Training in
Internal Medicine, CFDA 93.884, (PI : Gary Tabas, M.D.)
1994-1999
Principal Investigator, Neuromodulation of the mechanisms of
cognition, Research Scientist Career Development Award, NIMH
1993-1998
Co-Investigator, with Jay McClelland (PI), project 4 of
Center Grant Behavioral Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Research Center (Overall
PI : Edward Stricker, Ph.D), NIMH, competing continuation
1994-1997
Principal Investigator, Joseph LeDoux Co-PI, Towards a Model
of Processing in the Fear Response Network, McDonnell-Pew Foundation
grant-in-aid
Principal Investigator, Functional MR Imaging of Limbic
Structures, NARSAD
1991-1996
Co-Investigator, with Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D (PI),
Mechanisms of Context Processing in Schizophrenia, FIRST Award, NIMH
Co-Principal Investigator, with Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D,
Project II of Program Project Towards a Model of Normal and Disordered
Cognition (Program Director : James McClelland, Ph.D), NIMH
1991-1992
Principal Investigator, Deficits in the Internal
Representation of Context in Schizophrenia, Seed Money Award, Center for
Neuroscience and Schizophrenia, University of Pittsburgh
1988-1990
Principal Investigator, Cognitive and Computational
Approaches to Emotional Disorders, Individual Fellowship Award, NIMH
MH09696-02
2002
Advisory Board Member - OECD Program Learning Sciences and
Brain Research : Implications for Education Policies and Practices
1991-2000
Founding member (one of 7) of the Board of Directors of the
U.S. branch of Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. The
international organization was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in October
1999.
1999
Volunteer consultant for "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in
Kosovo : Psychological and psychiatric treatment of traumatic stress
condition
Consultant for the development of practice guidelines on
Posttraumatic Stress conditions for the Clinical Guidelines field book of the
"Médecins Sans Frontieres" international network
1998
Volunteer consultant for "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in
Tajikistan : Psychiatric services in rehabilitated state institutions
Reviewer for the American Psychiatric Association Practice
Guidelines on Delirium
1997
Exploratory mission with "Médecins Sans Frontieres" in India
: Evaluation of post-traumatic stress conditions among Tibetan children in the
refugee settlements.
1996
Chairperson, Special Emphasis Panel on Neural Basis of
Emotions, National Institute of Mental Health.
Volunteer consultant with "Médecins Sans Frontieres" :
Mental Health approaches to street children shelters and juvenile detention
centers in Guatemala City.
1991-1993
In-home psychiatric evaluations of house-bound and geriatric
patients (over 200 complete geriatric evaluations).
1991
Volunteer as a general practitioner with "Médecins Sans
Frontieres" in Kurdistan (Northern Irak) in the aftermath of the Gulf
War.
1990
Ad-hoc reviewer, Archives of General Psychiatry,
Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, Cognition and Emotion, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology,
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Machine Learning.
1988-1989
Founder and captain of the joint Carnegie Mellon -
University of Pittsburgh squash team. In the second year of existence the team
won the city squash championship in its league.
1980-1983
Founder and General Secretary of an independent student
union at Necker-EM School of Medicine focused on curriculum development and
student education. In three years, this new union won 80% of the student seats
on the school’s board of directors.