Sherwood Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Titles and Appointments
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Professor
- Endowed Title
- Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Science; Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research
- School
- Medical School
- Department
- Psychiatry
- Graduate Programs
- Clinical Psychology
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E. Sherwood Brown, M.D., Ph.D. MBA, is Professor of Psychiatry with Tenure, the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research and Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Research, Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Chief of the Division of Clinical Neuroscience, and Director of the Psychoneuroendocrine Research Program at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Texas Christian University. He received an M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and completed a psychiatry residency, on the research track, at UT Southwestern Medical Center followed by a research fellowship. He also completed an MBA,with Healthcare Organization Leadership Concentration, at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is board-certified in psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry and is President-Elect of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
He serves on several journal editorial boards including Biological Psychiatry:Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and Journal of Affective Disorders, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dual Diagnosis. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on comorbidities of mood disorders including medical illness and substance abuse. He has had numerous grants from NIH and private foundations, including grants from NIAAA and NIDA examining the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence, a grant from NHLBI examining the treatment of depressed asthma patients, NIA exploring neurosteroid treatments for peri-menopausal depression and NIMH examining the effects of stress and corticosteroids on the human brain. He has published well over 200 research papers, books, chapters, reviews and editorials.
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