Robert M. Post, M.D.
Bipolar Collaborative Network, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.*
Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington, School of Medicine
Dr. Post graduated from Yale University in 1964, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1968, and interned at the Einstein School of Medicine in 1969. His Psychiatry residency was completed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, NIMH, and George Washington University. He was Chief, Biological Psychiatry Branch for many of his 36 years at the NIMH where his research focused on better understanding and treating patients with refractory unipolar and bipolar illness. His group has won more than 22 major awards from groups such as the Society of Biological Psychiatry, APA, ACNP, Anna Monika Foundation, NARSAD, NDMDA, NAMI, ACP, ISBD, and the CINP. He is on multiple editorial boards and has published more than 1,080 manuscripts. He is the: author of a book entitled “Treatment of Bipolar Illness: A Casebook for Clinicians and Patients”, 2008, published by WW Norton; and for 20 years the editor of the Bipolar Network News (BNN), a free newsletter available online at www.bipolarnews.org. He founded the Childhood Mood Disorders Initiative with Robert Findling, MD which allows parents to weekly rate their child’s severity of anxiety, depression, ADHD, oppositional behavior, and mania so these can be printed out and taken to their treating physician for ease of recognition of longitudinal symptom severity and response to treatment. He now consults on a 4 site Child Bipolar Network headed by David Miklowitz at UCLA and does private consultations on difficult-to-treat children and adults with mood disorders.
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