Bruce Dohrenwend, PH.D.
Professor of Social Sciences (in Psychiatry and Epidemiology)
Chief of Research, Division of Social Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Dr. Bruce Dohrenwend is Professor of Social Science in the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is also Chief of Research in the Division of Social Psychiatry at the N. Y. State Psychiatric Institute. He did his graduate work in social psychology at Cornell and his field is psychiatric epidemiology. His research has grown out of issues raised by epidemiological findings of relations between important types of psychiatric disorder and social positions defined by gender, ethnic/racial background, and socioeconomic status. His particular interest is in how adversity and stress are related to these demographic variables on the one hand, and to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, major depression, antisocial personality disorder, substance use disorders (including alcoholism), and post-traumatic stress disorder on the other.
Undergraduate: Columbia College, BA, 1950
Graduate: Columbia University, M.A., 1951
Medical School: Cornell University, PH.D., 1955
Board Certifications: Certified as Psychologist in New York State
• Psychiatric Epidemiology
Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
1. Bruce P. Dohrenwend, J. Blake Turner, Nicholas A. Turse, Ben G. Adams, Karestan C. Koenen, and Randall Marshall: The Psychological Risks of Vietnam for U.S. Veterans: A Revisit with New Data and Methods. . Science 2006;313: 979-982
2. Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Itzhak Levav, Patrick E. Shrout, Sharon Schwartz, Guedalia Naveh, Bruce G. Link, Andrew E. Skodol, and Ann Stueve: Socioeconomic Status and Psychiatric Disorders: The Causation-Selection Issue. Science 1992;255: 946-952
3. Bruce P. Dohrenwend: Inventorying Stressful Life Events as Risk Factors for Psychopathology . Psychological Bulletin 2006;132: 477-495
