Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

HONORARY DEGREES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-present Co-director, The Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

1993-present Professor Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

1997-present Honorary Professor School of English, University of St. Andrews

1987-1993 Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

1985-1986 Visiting Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

1981-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

1982-1983 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford and Department of Academic Psychiatry St. George's Hospital Medical School

1977-1987 Clinic Director and Co-founder UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

1974-1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

1973-1974 Pre-doctoral intern, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

1968-1973 Research Assistant, Professor William H. McGlothlin, Department of Psychology, UCLA School of Medicine

CONSULTING AND OTHER POSITIONS

2009-present Advisory. Board International Consortium for Lithium Genetics

2008-present Chair, Friends of St. Andrews University Library

2007-present Scientific Advisory Board California Bipolar Foundation

2007-present Medical Advisory Board Sang Licht Foundation

2003-present Board of Governors Harvard Medical School, Center for Mental Health and Media

2002-present International Advisory Board, Centre for Suicide Research University of Oxford

2002-present National Advisory Board, University of Michigan Depression Center

2001 Member, Institute of Medicine: Committee on Pathophysiology Member and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide

2001-present Advisory Board, Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

2000-present Senior Scientific Consultant, The Dana Foundation, New York

2000-present Board of Directors, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign

2000-present Advisory Board, Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health (Columbia University)

2000-present Board of Directors, Medical University of South Carolina, Public Awareness Campaign (Ballenger Fund)

1998 Member, Pulitzer Prize Nominating Jury (Biography)

1998-2002 Scientific Advisory Board, National Collaborative Study of Early Psychosis and Suicide

1997-present Advisory Board, Rosalynn Carter Journalism Fellowship Awards

1997 Member, National Committee for the Basic Sciences at UCLA

1997 Member, Steering Committee, National Strategy for Suicide Prevention

1995-2002 Chairman, Genome Action Coalition Steering Committee

1995-present Member, Executive, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

1994-present Board of Directors, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

1994-2004 Board of Directors, Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association

1993-present executive Committee, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

1993-1997 Clinical Director, Dana Consortium on the Genetic Basis of Manic-Depressive Illness

1991-1995 Member, National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research

1990-1993 Board of Directors, International Arts-Medicine Association Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1990 Consultant, American College of Neuro-psychopharmacology

Task force on Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Privileges for Non-Physicians

1988-present President, Manic-Depressive Illness Foundation

1987-2001 Project Director, Mood Disorders and Artistic Creativity (North Star Fund, New York City)

1987-present Guest Researcher, National Institute of Mental Health

1986 Consultant, American Psychiatric Association Taskforce on Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

1985-1987 Scientific Advisory Board, Project Depression (D/ART) National Institute of Mental Health

1985-present Scientific Advisory Board National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association

1981 Visiting Scientist, Clinical Psychobiology Branch National Institute of Mental Health

1977-1981 Consultant, Controlled Substances & Drug Abuse Research Advisory Committee Bureau of Drugs, United States Food and Drug Administration

EDITORIAL BOARDS

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Abnormal Psychology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Second Edition, 1986.

Manic-Depressive Illness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. (Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression). Second Edition, 2007.

Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1993.

An Unquiet Mind. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. (Translated into 25 languages).

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. (Translated into 15 languages).

Exuberance: The Passion for Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, BOOK REVIEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 

Comrey, A. L. and Jamison, K. Verification of Six Personality Factors. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1966, 26, 945-953.

Comrey, A. L., Jamison, K., and King, N. Integration of Two Personality Factor Systems. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1968, 3, 147-160.

Jamison, D. T. and Jamison, K. A Note on the Entropy of Partially Known Languages. Information and Control, 1968, 12, 164-167.

Jamison, K. and Comrey, A. L. A Cross-Cultural Study of British and American Personality Factors. Proceedings of the America Psychological Association, 1968, 167-168.

Jamison, K. and Comrey, A. L. Further Study of Dependence as a Personality Factor. Psychological Reports, 1968, 22, 239-242.

Duffey, K. E., Jamison, K., and Comrey, A. L. Assessment of a Proposed Expansion 1969, 4, 295-308.

Jamison, K. and Comrey, A. L. A Comparison of Personality Factor Structure in British and American University Students. Journal of Psychology, 1969, 45-57.

McGlothlin, W. H., Jamison, K., and Rosenblatt, S. Marijuana And The Use of Other Drugs. Nature, 1970, 228, 1227-1228.

Jamison, K. A Study of British and American Stereotypes. Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, 1971, 349-350.

Jamison, K. A Note on The Relationship Between Extraversion and Aesthetic Preferences. Journal of General Psychology, 1972, 87, 301-302.

Jamison, K. Psychological and Sociological Perspectives on Narcotics Addiction. In McGlothlin, W. H., Tabbush, V., Chambers, C., and Jamison, K. Alternative Approaches to Opiate Addiction Control: Costs, Benefits and Potential. United States Department of Justice Report SCIDTR-7, 1972.

Jamison, K. and McGlothlin, W. H. Drug Usage, Personality, Attitudinal and Biographical Correlates of Driving Behavior. Journal of Psychology, 1973, 83, 123-130.

Price, S. and Jamison, K. Correlates and Extent of Drug Use on a Methadone Maintenance Program. British Journal of Addiction, 1974, 69, 173-179.

McCreary, C. P. and Jamison, K. The Chronic Pain Patient. In Pasnau, R. O. (Ed.) Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1975, pp. 205-217.

Jamison, K., Ferrer-Brechner, M. T., Brechner, V., and McCreary, C. P. Correlation of Personality Profiles with Pain Syndrome. In Bonica, J. J. and Albe-Fessard, Press, 1976, pp. 317-321.

Pfefferbaum, B., Pasnau, R. O., Jamison, K., and Wellisch, D. K. A Comprehensive Program of Psychosocial Care for Mastectomy Patients. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1977, 8, 63-72.

Jamison, K., Wellisch, D. K., and Pasnau, R. O. I. Psychosocial Aspects of Mastectomy: The Woman's Perspective. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1978, 135, 432-436.

Wellisch, D. K., Jamison, K., and Pasnau, R. O. II. Psychosocial Aspects of Mastectomy: The Man's Perspective. American Journal of Psychatry, 1978, 135, 543-546.

Jamison, K. and McGlothlin, W. H. Agents and Addicts: Same Rules, Different Games. To appear in McGlothlin, W. H. and Anglin, D. (Eds.) Treatment or Control: The California Civil Addict Program.

Carlson, G. A., Davenport, Y., and Jamison, K. A Comparison of Outcomes in Adolescent and Late Onset Bipolar Manic-Depressive Illness. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1977, 134, 919-922.

Jamison, K. Manic-Depressive Illness in The Elderly. In Kaplan, I. J. (Ed.) Psychopathology in the Aging. New York: Academic Press, 1979, pp. 79-95.

Jamison, K. R., Wellisch, D. R., Katz, R. L., and Pasnau, R. O. Phantom Breast Syndrome. Archives of Surgery, 1979, 114, 93-95.

Van Putten, T. and Jamison, K. R. Rejection of Lithium Therapy by The Patient. In Johnson, F. N. (Ed.) Handbook of Lithium Therapy. Lancaster, England: NTP Press, 1980, 103-108.

Jamison, K. R., Atypical Cycloid Psychosis. In Friedman, C. T. and Faguet, R. A. (Eds.) Extraordinary Symptoms in Psychiatry, New York: Plenum Press, 1982, 259-291.

Jamison, K. R., Gerner, R. H., and Goodwin, F. K. Patient and Physician Attitudes Toward Lithium. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1979, 36, 866-869.

Jamison, K. R., Gerner, R. H., Hammen, C., and Padesky, C. Clouds and Silver Linings: Positive experiences associated with the primary affective disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1980, 137, 198-202.

Morley, J. E., Baranetsky, N. G., Carlson, H. E., Hershman, J. M., Levin, S. R., Jamison, K. R., Weitzman, R., and Chang, R. J. Endocrine Effects of Naloxone- Induced Opiate Receptor Blockage. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1980, 50, 251-257.

Goodwin, F. K. and Jamison, K. R. Review of B. Shopsin (Ed.) Manic Illness (New York: Raven Press, 1979), New England Journal of Medicine, 1979, 301, 1352.

Jamison, K. R., and Goodwin, F. K. Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Manic-Depressive Patients on Lithium. In Greenhill, M. and Gralnick, A. (Eds.) Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy, New York: Macmillan Co., 1983, 53-77.

Fieve, R. R., and Jamison, K. R. Rubidium: Overview and Clinical Perspectives. In Lehmann, H. E. (Ed.) Modern Problems of Psychopharmopsychiatry: Nontricyclics and Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors. Montreal: Karger Publ., 1982, 18, 145-163.

Ungerleider, J. T., Andrysiak, T., Fairbanks, L., Goodnight, J., Sarna, G., and Jamison, K. Cannabis and Cancer Chemotherapy: A Comparison of Oral Delta- 9-THC and Prochlorperazine. Cancer, 1982, 50, 636-645.

Jamison, K. R. and Goodwin, F. K. Psychological Issues in Manic-Depressive Illness. In: Grinspoon, L. (Ed.), Psychiatry 1983: The American Psychiatric Association Annual Review. Washington, D. C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1983, 319-337.

Jamison, K. R. (Ed.) Lithium: Clinical Considerations. Proceedings of a Symposium. Excerpta Medica, 1982. 63 pages.

Jamison, K. R., Psychological Issues in Lithium Therapy. In Jamison, K. R. (Ed.) Lithium: Clinical Considerations. Excerpta Medica, 1982, 11-22.

Jamison, K. R. Impact of Mastectomy on Women and Their Spouses. In Feig, S.A. and McLelland, R. (Eds.) Breast Carcinoma: Current Diagnosis and Treatment. New York: Masson, 1983.

Goodwin, F. K. and Jamison, K. R. The Natural Course of Manic-Depressive Illness. In Post, R. M. and Ballenger, J. C. (Eds.) Neurobiology of Mood Disorders. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1984, 20-37.

Jamison, K. R. and Akiskal, H. S. Medication Compliance in Patients with Manic- Depressive Illness. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 6, 175-192, 1983.

Jamison, K. R. Psychological Studies of Bipolar Affective Illness. In Mendlewicz, J. (Ed.) Advances in Biological Psychiatry. Basel: S. Karger.

Ungerleider, J. T., Fairbanks, L., Andrysiak, T., Sarna, G., Goodnight, J., and Jamison, K. R. Oral Delta-9-THC or Prochlorperazine for The Cancer Chemotherapy Patient--the UCLA study. Part 2 - Patient Drug Preference. American Journal of Clinical Oncology, 8, 142-147, 1985.

Gitlin, M. J. and Jamison, K. R. Lithium Clinics: Theory and Practice. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 35, 363-368, 1984.

Fieve, R. R. and Jamison, K. R. The Use of Lithium and Experimental Rubidium in Psychiatry. In Harris, J. (Ed.) Metal Ions in Neurology and Psychiatry. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1985, pp. 107-120.

Jamison, K. R. Creativity and Madness. Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter, 1985, 1, 4-6.

Jamison, K. R. and Winter, R. Moods and Music: Program Notes for Los Angeles Philharmonic Concert, May 19, 1985. 40 pages.

Rose, R. M., Burt, R. A., Clayton, P. J., Frances, A., Friedhoff, A. J., Jamison, K. R., Janowsky, D. S., Leff, J., Leppick, I. E., Withrow, R. P. Consensus Development Conference Statement: Electroconvulsive Therapy. Journal of the American Medical Association, 254: 2103-2108, 1985.