ALAN F. SCHATZBERG, MD, received his MD from NYU. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Harvard Medical School). He joined the staff at McLean Hospital and served in several leadership positions there. He became Clinical Director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in 1998. In 1991, Dr. Schatzberg became the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He served as chair until 2010. He now directs the Stanford Mood Disorders Center. He has been an active investigator in the biology and psychopharmacology of depressive disorders, authoring over 700 publications and abstracts.  He is the Co-Author of the Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology in its 10^th Edition (2024) and co-edited the Textbook of Psychopharmacology (Sixth Edition, 2024). He has been president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), and the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). He has received numerous awards for excellence and leadership from the APA, ACNP, SOBP, Max Planck Psychiatric Institute, Anna Monika Foundation, etc. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and their 2025 Sarnat Prize recipient.