Dr. Israel Liberzon

Biography

Israel Liberzon, MD, is a University Distinguished Professor and the William Dorothy Stearman Endowed Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine. He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where he established the PTSD program at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Over the course of his career, he has remained at the forefront of biological research on PTSD for more than 20 years, progressing from associate to full endowed professor. Dr. Liberzon leads the Trauma, Stress, Anxiety Research Group, and directs the Psychiatric Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory and the Stress Neurobiology laboratory. In 2018, he was recruited as the founding chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Texas A&M University. His primary research interests focus on emotions, stress, and stress-related disorders such as PTSD, particularly the regulation and dysregulation of stress response systems. His work integrates cognitive, functional neuroimaging, neuroendocrine, and genetic approaches. Dr. Liberzon is a well-funded researcher with multiple NIMH RO1 grants and various other prestigious awards and has published more than 320 peer-reviewed manuscripts, in addition to authoring and editing books and multiple chapters. He has also mentored 11 KO1 VA Career Development awardees and several trainees who now hold leading academic positions at top institutions worldwide.

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