Stephen M. Stahl MD, PhD, DSc (Hon)

Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D., DSc (Hon), is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, San Diego; an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Cambridge; and Director of Psychopharmacology Services the California Department of State Hospitals. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, as a member of the Honors Program in Medical Education, and his PhD in pharmacology and physiology from the University of Chicago. Dr Stahl has trained in 3 specialties: internal medicine at the University of Chicago; neurology at the University of California, San Francisco; and psychiatry at Stanford University. He is board-certified in psychiatry.

Dr. Stahl has held faculty positions at Stanford University, the University of California, Los Angeles; the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (previously known as the Institute of Psychiatry) in London; and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (previously known as the Institute of Neurology) in London. He is currently at the University of California, Riverside; the University of California, San Diego; the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse; and the University of Cambridge. He also directs psychopharmacology services and academic programs for the 5-facility, 6500-patient California Department of State Hospitals, where he has a leadership role in addressing violence and decriminalization of the seriously mentally ill. Dr Stahl was formerly executive director of clinical neurosciences at the Merck Neuroscience Research Center in the United Kingdom for several years. His major interests are dedicated to producing and disseminating educational information about diseases and their treatments in psychiatry and neurology.

Dr. Stahl currently serves as editor-in-chief of CNS Spectrums. He is also past associate editor of the Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and former clinical field editor for the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is currently on numerous editorial boards of other leading journals, including the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s journal Neuropsychopharmacology. He has conducted numerous research projects during his career awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and the pharmaceutical industry.

The author of more than 575 articles and chapters with an H index of 62 and more than 2000 scientific presentations and abstracts, Dr. Stahl is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology. He has written 68 textbooks and edited 14 others, including the best-selling and award-winning textbook Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its fourth edition, and the best-selling and award-winning clinical manual Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide, now in its sixth edition. Dr. Stahl has also published the novel Shell Shock, a thriller that recounts the history of posttraumatic stress disorder.