David Pickar, Md Email & Phone Number

David Pickar, M.D. has enjoyed a career in psychiatry, psychiatric research and translational neuroscience. Dr. Pickar has broad experience in drug development including membership on the Psychiatry Drug Advisory Committee for the FDA, 2014-2018. He is Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and the University Services of Health Sciences. Dr Pickar is actively involved in new drug development for schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions of Parkinson's Disease Psychosis and application of cannabidiol to enhance psychiatric drug treatment.Dr. Pickar served in the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for over 20 years where he was the Chief of the Experimental Therapeutics Branch dedicated to studying schizophrenia and psychosis. Dr. Pickar has received numerous honors and awards in the course of his career, including the Judith Silver Memorial Young Scientist Award of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the AE Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Meritorious Service Medal for Exemplary Performance of Duty from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Pickar has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific articles and is the inventor of two US patents. Dr. Pickar is the Producer of the documentary film, “The Realities of Serious Mental Illness.” Dr. Pickar practices psychiatry and forensic consultations in Chevy Chase, Maryland in addition to his work in drug development,Dr. Pickar was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College in 1969 where he was a letter winner in Varsity Lacrosse. After completing Yale University School of Medicine in 1973 and his psychiatric residency at Yale in 1977, Dr. Pickar joined the NIMH as a Commissioned Officer of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Pickar retired as Captain (0-6) USPHS in 1999.

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