Hilary P. Blumberg
Hilary P. Blumberg
John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program, Yale School of Medicine
Elected to the Academy in 2024

Education

Harvard, 1986, BA, Neuroscience; Cornell University Medical College, 1990, MD

Professional Area

Bipolar disorder, other mood disorders and suicide in youths and adults; expertise includes multimodal neuroimaging and translational approaches integrating imaging with genetic, stem cell, clinical and behavioral research to understand brain circuitry and generate strategies for early detection, prevention, and treatment

Citation

For pioneering contributions using multimodal neuroimaging to identify structural and functional brain differences in youth and adults with Bipolar Disorder that revolutionized the view of Bipolar Disorder as a disorder of altered brain development, key for understanding Bipolar Disorder pathophysiology, early identification, treatment, and prevention.