BioSummary.
Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D.
Dr. Yudofsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and a Director of the Valour Foundation. In January, 2016 Dr. Yudofsky retired as the Distinguished Service Professor, with tenure, and Chairman and the Beth K. and Stuart C. Yudofsky Presidential Chair in Neuropsychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Baylor College of Medicine; and as Chairman of the Psychiatry Department of Houston Methodist Hospital — positions he held for almost 25 years. Prior to moving to Houston in 1991 with his wife Beth, who is also a psychiatrist, Dr. Yudofsky was tenured Professor, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago and Chief of Psychiatric Services for The University of Chicago Hospital System. Previously, he was founding director of the psychiatry department of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and director of psychiatric research at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute. For 14 years he was on the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was Associate Professor, Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Director and Deputy Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Yudofsky's research and clinical practice focus in two areas: psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry. For 28 years, he served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, the official journal of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, of which he served as President. He is the author/co-author of numerous scientific articles and more than 60 book chapters. Additionally, he is the author of or has edited/co-edited more than 50 medical books including the American Psychiatric Association Publishing’s Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry and its Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, two of the standard reference textbooks in this field. Dr. Yudofsky also wrote What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs, a book for the general public about psychiatric medications and Fatal Flaws, a hybrid book about personality disorders for mental health professionals and for people in destructive relationships with people with these conditions. Fatal Flaws has been published in Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Fatal Pauses, Dr. Yudofsky’s second hybrid book for the general public and mental health professionals was published in 2015, and it focuses on how people become “stuck” in dysfunctional relationships and unhealthful behavioral patterns and habits and offers a structured method for getting “unstuck” using psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral principles. |