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Myrna Weissman, Ph.D.

Myrna Weissman, Ph.D., is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is famous for her ongoing studies of the genetics of depression, for which she is following three generations, and for her significant contributions, with her late husband, Gerald Klerman, M.D., and others, to the creation of Interpersonal Therapy, an evidence-based psychotherapy for major depression and other psychiatric disorders.

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Department of Psychiary, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York State Psychiatric Institute

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