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Andreap_barbaro

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 National Fisheries Institute
Luxembourg

Biography

He was Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Psychiatric Research and Director of the Depression and Anxiety Disorders Research Institute at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Sheehan was born and educated in Ireland. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. At Harvard Medical School, where he was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, he was on the full-time faculty for 12 1/2 years. He was the Director of Anxiety Research and Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his MBA (summa cum laude) from the University of South Florida. He served as Director of Psychiatric Research for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine from 1985-2007. He has written over 550 abstracts and 300 publications including a bestseller The Anxiety Disease (which sold over ½ a million copies). He has edited / served on the editorial board of 9 books/monographs and is the author of 2 books on suicidality. Cumulatively, his publications have been cited over 25,000 times (ResearchGate) and over 26,000 (Google Scholar). One of his scientific publications has been identified in Essential Science Indicators as a “Current Classic” on 3 separate occasions and as the paper with the greatest absolute increase in citations in the fields of psychiatry and psychology in the last decade (1999-2009). His h-index score is 46 and his RG Score on ResearchGate is 45.29. His scales and structured interviews have been translated into over 80 languages. He has been awarded over $20 million for 130 research grants. He was awarded 2 patents by the United States Patent Office in 1996 and 2015. He has given expert testimony to the United States Congress. He has been invited to give over 2000 lectures in 68 countries throughout the world on anxiety and mood disorders, suicidality, measurement based care, psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry. He was elected as a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is a Charter Member of the National Academy of Inventors. Among other honors, he has been included in “The Best Doctors in America” published by Woodward/White Inc. every year from 1992 until his retirement in 2010.

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