Message from the Chair
Dr. Boadie Dunlop, a clinical psychiatrist who specializes in mood disorders and anxiety, is chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior and Case Distinguished University Chair. Dr. Dunlop came to MCG from Emory University, where he directed the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program and the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Program.
He also served as medical director of Emory Healthcare鈥檚 Veterans Program, where they treat conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, and depression, and as co-director of the Emory Center of Psychedelics and Spirituality, the world鈥檚 first center to fully integrate clinical and research-based expertise in psychiatry and spiritual health.
His clinical research program focuses on the neurobiology, psychopharmacology, and personalized treatment of major depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. A federally-funded scientist, he has served as an investigator on more than 70 NIH- and industry-funded clinical studies of medication, psychotherapy, and their combination for the treatment for those conditions.
He is a graduate of Mayo Medical School and completed a residency in psychiatry and a master鈥檚 in clinical research at Emory.