Genetics of Depression and Anxiety: What Do Clinicians Need to Know?

Dr. Jordan Smoller is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At Massachusetts General Hospital, he is the Jerrold F. Rosenbaum Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, Associate Chief for Research in Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, co-Director of the Center for Suicide Research and Prevention, and co-Director of the MGB Training Program in Precision and Genomic Medicine. He is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute, and President of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. He is a Principal Investigator of All of Us New England as part of the NIH All of Us Research Program, an author of more than 550 scientific publications and the author of The Other Side of Normal (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2012).