Neal Swerdlow MD, PhD

Neal Swerdlow, M.D., Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Swerdlow graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Amherst College (Neuroscience) in 1981, received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) from UCSD in 1986, completed the UCSD Psychiatry Residency Program and joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in 1991. Since that time, he has been continuously NIH-funded, was Director of the Psychiatry Core Clerkship for 17 years, and directed separate clinical programs in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Tourette Syndrome (TS), and Huntington's Disease (HD), and has directed the Psychiatry Research Residency Track since 2010.