Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is a psychiatrist and researcher with expertise in depression and bipolar illness, and training in philosophy and public health. He is Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (Cambridge Health Alliance) and  Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University (Tufts Medical Center). He also previously directed early drug discovery at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge MA.  He is the author of multiple books, most recently Clinical Psychopharmacology (Oxford University Press, 2019), and also including the New York Times Bestseller, A First-Rate Madness (Penguin, 2011). He has published over 300 scientific articles or book chapters. He is an associate editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, on the editorial board of a number of journals, and active in numerous professional organizations.

Dr. Ghaemi has a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, completed medical and psychiatry residency training at Harvard in the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital programs, received a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Tufts University, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.