Member Spotlight - Cloned

ADAA's professional members play a key role in providing resources and treatment and research information to those struggling with anxiety, depression and related disorders. Learn more about the work our members do, how they came to ADAA, and what they value most about being a part of the ADAA community.

Dr. Chadi Abdallah is an Associate Professor and Beth K. and Stuart Yudofsky Chair in the Neuropsychiatry of Military Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Academic Director of for the Advanced Technology Core Labs, Core for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CAMRI) at Baylor. Dr. Abdallah received his MD from Lebanese University and completed his Residency at SUND Downstate, a Research Fellowship at Yale University, and Postdoctoral Training at Cornell University.  

Dr. Abdallah has expertise in antidepressants clinical trials, translational clinical neuroscience, multimodal neuroimaging, and the development of rapid acting antidepressant for the treatment of depression, PTSD and other stress-related psychiatric disorders. He employs broad range of pharmacological challenges, neuroimaging modalities, and network neuroscience approaches to study the neurobiology of depression and other psychiatric disorders and the mechanisms underlying treatment response and resistance. His research program focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying trauma, depression, and chronic stress, with emphasis on the role of synaptic connectivity and neuroenergetics.

Dr. Abdallah Shares More About His ADAA Involvement

“I first attended the ADAA annual conference in 2014 as presenter. I was very impressed by the excellent mix of clinical and research presentations, as well as by the professional diversity of attendees. Since then, I have been attending and/or presenting at the annual meeting almost every year. I enjoy the informative email updates and the participation in the special groups [offered by ADAA]. But my favorite is of course the annual conference.

As a researcher, my involvement with ADAA helps me make new friends and acquaintances within the field and got me exposed to broad spectrum of research and clinical knowledge.

I recently moved to Baylor College of Medicine, where I serve as director of the Core for Advanced MRI (CAMRI) and co-director of the Emerge Research Program. So far, I love the warmer weather in Houston!  I am looking forward to expanding the impact of CAMRI on the local imaging research and to continue and advance the research work that we started at Yale. I am especially excited about our work to establish clinically useful biomarkers of trauma and chronic stress.”