Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

38 MILLENNIUM T he human brain and its infinite possibilities have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years as they’ve come to knowmore about its functions and relation to the rest of the body, and yet, new, exciting discoveries are emerging every day to provide insight into how those functions affect how we live, work and interact with those around us. As an educator and behavioral molecular neurobiologist, Dr. Jack Barchas is interested in neuroregulators —chemical substances that regulate activity in the nervous system —and their relation to behavior and stress. Currently chair of the department of psychiatry and the Barklie McKee Henry Professor of Psychiatry atWeill Cornell Medical College, he is also psychiatrist-in- chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center. In the mid-1960s, after receiving a BA from Pomona College and an MD from the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Barchas completed an internship at the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, postdoctoral training through the National Institutes of Health, and a residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he would go on to become director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory of Behavioral Neurochemistry and associate chair of the department of psychiatry until 1987. He later served as dean of research development and neuroscience for the UCLA School of Medicine before assuming his current role. Outside of his academic appointments, Dr. Barchas is also a widely published researcher and author with more than 300 scholarly articles and book chapters to his name. Publications for which he has been an editor or co-editor include “Psychopharmacology fromTheory to Practice” and “Neuroregulators and Psychiatric Disorders,” and he also served on the editorial board of the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association from1994 to 2001. Dr. Barchas is highly involved in conversations about public policy with regard to psychiatry andmedicine, holding memberships in the American Psychiatric Association, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the American Society for Neurochemistry, among others. In recognition of his commitment to upholding the values of his profession, he has received several research and academic awards, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Jack D. Barchas, MD Psychiatrist Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY