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Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr. P.H.

Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr. P.H., is Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, The Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies; Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, all at Columbia University, and Professor of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor at the Health Services Research Department, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College_London Kings College], London UK, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health, University of Western Australia, Australia.

Dr. Susser's primary research has been on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology epidemiology[ of ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorders mental disorders], and on examining the role of early life experience in health and disease throughout the life course. His international collaborative birth cohort research program (The Imprints Center) seeks to uncover the developmental origins of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD, as well as other complex diseases. Among the risk factors explored are prenatal exposures to infectious disease and toxic chemicals, childhood nutrition and environment, and genetics, as well as the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors. His most recent research addresses the role of in utero de novo genetic mutations in the development of schizophrenia in adulthood. Dr. Susser’s work has also addressed the health of inner city populations, examining relationships between homelessness, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS, and developing and testing interventions to help individuals with severe mental illness to live in the community.

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Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

The Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies, Columbia University

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

New York State Psychiatric Institute

TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health, University of Western Australia, Australia.

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