Richard Alan Friedman, M.D. is Director of Psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

At his death in 1927, Payne Whitney bestowed the funds to build and endow the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan...

 and the Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is a professor of psychiatry. He is an expert in the pharmacologic treatment of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder. He writes regularly for the science section of the New York Times.

Friedman is a graduate of Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 and the medical school at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

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External links

• Physician's home page, Weill Cornell
• Publications
• New York Times columns