Jack David Barchas, M.D. (born November 2, 1935) is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry

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 at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

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 and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

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. He was formerly the Nancy Friend Pritzker professor in psychiatry at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 and dean of research and neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. In 2006 the Institute of Medicine

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gave him their Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health.