Dr. Lorrin Koran

Biography

Lorrin M. Koran, M.D., received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his internship at UCLA, followed by residency in psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center. He has served in the U.S. Public Health Service and held the position of a visiting colleague at the Maudsley Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry in London. In 1972, he joined the faculty at SUNY Stony Brook, before moving to Stanford University Medical Center in 1977, where he became a Professor of Psychiatry in 1984 and is now an Emeritus Professor. Dr. Koran is known for establishing the Comprehensive Medicine Unit at Stanford University Hospital and for directing the Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Service and the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic. His research has primarily focused on obsessive-compulsive disorder and its related disorders, as well as the pharmacotherapy of chronic depressive disorders. He has chaired workgroups producing guidelines for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and has published extensively on these topics. As an educator, he received multiple awards for outstanding teaching in his department.

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