S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH

Board-Certified Psychiatrist

I am Director of the Psychopharmacology Consultation Clinic at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. My clinical work and research have focused on depression and manic-depressive illness. I have published over 300 scientific articles and have written or edited about a dozen books, including a major textbook on psychopharmacology, a book on research methods in psychiatry, and a book on leadership. The details regarding my academic publications can be reached at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L9XTPtgAAAAJ&hl=en.

I have been a featured psychiatric expert on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and other major media. My book, A First Rate Madness, was a national bestseller and was excerpted in the Wall Street Journal, and reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other national newspapers. 

Throughout my career, I have served on a number of editorial boards of psychiatric journals. For more than five years, I have been Associate Editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. I am a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the current president-elect of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and am board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology.