About:

1971 - 1974 Director of Research, Jerusalem Mental Health Center Ezrath Nashim ( Herzog Hospital ), Jerusalem , Israel

1974 - 1978 Unit Chief, Section on Psychogenetics, Biological Psychiatry Branch, IRP, NIMH,

Bethesda , MD

1978 - 1984 Chief, Section on Psychogenetics, Biological Psychiatry Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda

1986 - 1987 Director, Office of Science and Senior Science Advisor, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental

Health Administration (ADAMHA)

1984 - 1998 Chief, Clinical Neurogenetics Branch, IRP, NIMH, Bethesda , MD

1998 - 2003 Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago

1998 - Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago

  Honors & Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for Psychiatric Genetics, 2006

Anna-Monika Foundation Prize for Research in Depression 2005 ISI Highly Cited Authors 2003

Rudin Visiting Professorship, Columbia University , 2001

Selo Prize of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, 1996 (shared with Drs. Berrettini and DePaulo)

Gerald L. Klerman Lifetime Research Award, National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, 1994 (shared with Dr. John Rush)

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, 1992 Samuel W. Hamilton Award, American Psychopathological Association (APPA), 1992

Editorial Boards

Journal of Affective Disorders, 1978-Present Psychiatry Research, 1978-Present

Neuropsychopharmacology (Journal of the ACNP), 1987-1992 and 1995-Present Psychiatric Genetics, 1989-Present

Neuropsychiatric Genetics (Section of American Journal of Medical Genetics), 1992-Present Molecular Psychiatry 1994- Present

Advisory Boards

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), 1992-Present National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA) 1986-1993 and 1994-1999

•  Tang, Y-P and Gershon, ES, Genetic studies in Alzheimer's disease, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience , 2003; 4:17 -28.

•  Thomas G. Schulze, Silvia Buervenich, Judith A. Badner, C.J.M. Steele, Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh, Danielle Dick, Tatiana Foroud, Nancy J. Cox, Dean F. MacKinnon, James B. Potash, Wade H. Berrettini, William Byerley, William Coryell, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., Elliot S. Gershon , John R. Kelsoe, Melvin G. McInnis, Dennis L. Murphy, Theodore Reich†, William Scheftner, John I. Nurnberger, Jr., and Francis J. McMahon. Loci on Chromosomes 6q and 6p Interact to Increase Susceptibility to Bipolar Affective Disorder in the National Institute of Mental Health Genetics Initiative Pedigrees, BIOL PSYCHIATRY 2004;56:18–23.

•  Zandi PP, Willour VL, Huo Y, Chellis J, Potash JB, MacKinnon DF, Simpson SG, McMahon FJ, Gershon E, Reich T, Foroud T, Nurnberger J, Jr., DePaulo JR, Jr., McInnis MG: Genome scan of a second wave of NIMH genetics initiative bipolar pedigrees: chromosomes 2, 11, 13, 14, and X. Am.J.Med.Genet.B Neuropsychiatr.Genet. 2003; 119:69-76.

•  Dick DM, Foroud T, Edenberg HJ, Miller M, Bowman E, Rau NL, DePaulo JR, McInnis M, Gershon E, McMahon F, Rice JP, Bierut LJ, Reich T, Nurnberger J, Jr.: Apparent replication of suggestive linkage on chromosome 16 in the NIMH genetics initiative bipolar pedigrees. Am.J.Med.Genet. 2002; 114:407-412

•  Ferraren DO, Liu C, Badner JA, Corona W, Rezvani A, Monje VD, Gershon ES, Bonner TI, Detera-Wadleigh SD : Linkage disequilibrium analysis in the LOC93081-KDELC1-BIVM region on 13q in bipolar disorder. Am.J.Med.Genet.B Neuropsychiatr.Genet. 2005; 133:12-17

•  Cichon S, Buervenich S, Kirov G, Akula N, Dimitrova A, Green E, Schumacher J, Klopp N, Becker T, Ohlraun S, Schulze TG, Tullius M, Gross MM, Jones L, Krastev S, Nikolov I, Hamshere M, Jones I, Czerski PM, Leszczynska-Rodziewicz A, Kapelski P, Bogaert AV, Illig T, Hauser J, Maier W, Berrettini W, Byerley W, Coryell W, Gershon ES, Kelsoe JR, McInnis MG, Murphy DL, Nurnberger JI, Reich T, Scheftner W, O'Donovan MC, Propping P, Owen MJ, Rietschel M, Nothen MM, McMahon FJ, Craddock N: Lack of support for a genetic association of the XBP1 promoter polymorphism with bipolar disorder in probands of European origin. Nat.Genet. 2004; 36:783-784

•  Schulze TG, Buervenich S, Badner JA, Steele CJ, Detera-Wadleigh SD, Dick D, Foroud T, Cox NJ, MacKinnon DF, Potash JB, Berrettini WH, Byerley W, Coryell W, DePaulo JR, Jr., Gershon ES, Kelsoe JR, McInnis MG, Murphy DL, Reich T, Scheftner W, Nurnberger JI, Jr., McMahon FJ: Loci on chromosomes 6q and 6p interact to increase susceptibility to bipolar affective disorder in the national institute of mental health genetics initiative pedigrees. Biol.Psychiatry 2004; 56:18-23

•  Nguyen TH, Liu C, Gershon ES , McMahon FJ: Frequency Finder: a multi-source web application for collection of public allele frequencies of SNP markers. Bioinformatics. 2004; 20:439-443

•  McInnis MG, Dick DM, Willour VL, Avramopoulos D, MacKinnon DF, Simpson SG, Potash JB, Edenberg HJ, Bowman ES, McMahon FJ, Smiley C, Chellis JL, Huo Y, Diggs T, Meyer ET, Miller M, Matteini AT, Rau NL, DePaulo JR, Gershon ES , Badner JA, Rice JP, Goate AM, Detera-Wadleigh SD, Nurnberger JI, Reich T, Zandi PP, Foroud TM: Genome-wide scan and conditional analysis in bipolar disorder: evidence for genomic interaction in the National Institute of Mental Health genetics initiative bipolar pedigrees. Biol.Psychiatry 2003; 54:1265-1273

•  Hattori E, Liu C, Zhu H, Gershon ES. Genetic tests of biologic systems in affective disorders. Mol Psychiatry. 2005; 10: 719-740

•  Lyons-Warren A, Chang JJ, Balkissoon R, Kamiya A, Garant M, Nurnberger J, Scheftner W, Reich T, McMahon F, Kelsoe J, Gershon E , Coryell W, Byerley W, Berrettini W, Depaulo R, McInnis M, Sawa A. Evidence of association between bipolar disorder and Citron on chromosome 12q24. Mol Psychiatry. 2005 Sep;10(9):807-9.