Ned Kalin
PI: Project 1
Ned H. Kalin, MD, is Hedberg Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is Director of HealthEmotions Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Kalin is an affiliate scientist at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Center and the Harlow Primate Laboratory. He serves as the principal investigator for several ongoing NIH funded research projects, consults to the pharmaceutical industry for new drug development in psychopharmacology, and founded a biotechnology company, Promoter Neurosciences, aimed at developing novel gene based treatments for psychiatric disorders. His research focuses on uncovering basic mechanisms that relate stress to the development of psychopathology and to understanding which mechanisms cause some children vulnerable for the development of anxiety and depression. In addition to his research activities, he treats patients that suffer from anxiety and depression that are refractory to standard treatment.
Dr. Kalin earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then did a residency in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. Subsequently, he did a fellowship in Neuropsychopharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Kalin is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American College of Psychiatry. He has been recognized for numerous awards including the 1985 A.E. Bennett Award for basic science research in biological psychiatry, the 2005 Edward A. Strecker Award, the 2007 American College of Psychiatrists Award for research in mood disorders, and the 2007 Gerald Klerman Senior Investigator Award. He recently served as president of the International Society of Psychoneuro-endocrinology and also recently served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council. He has published over one hundred and seventy peer-reviewed research papers and is Co-Editor of the Journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. He lectures regularly at national and international meetings.