Mark H. Pollack, MD

Grainger Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center

Dr. Pollack’s areas of clinical and research interest include the acute and long-term course, pathophysiology, and treatment of patients with anxiety disorders and associated comorbidities, development of novel pharmacologic agents for mood and anxiety disorders, uses of combined cognitive-behavioral and pharmacologic therapies for treatment refractory patients, presentation and treatment of anxiety in the medical setting, and the pathophysiology and treatment of substance abuse.

Dr. Pollack has been an ADAA member since 1991.

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