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Ezra Susser, M.D./ Dr. P.H.
Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology
Professor of Epidemiology,
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Honorary Visiting Professor at the Health Services Research Department,
Kings College, London UK
Honorary Visiting Professor at the TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health,
University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor of Psychiatry,
New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY
Director, The Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies ,
Mailman School of Public Health and The New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Dr. Susser's primary research has been on the epidemiology of mental disorders, and on examining the role of early life experience in health and disease throughout the life course. His international collaborative birth cohort research program (The Imprints Center) seeks to uncover the developmental origins of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and ADHD, as well as other complex diseases. Among the risk factors explored are prenatal exposures to infectious disease and toxic chemicals, childhood nutrition and environment, and genetics, as well as the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors. His most recent research addresses the role of in utero de novo genetic mutations in the development of schizophrenia in adulthood. Dr. Susser’s work has addressed the health of inner city populations, examining relationships between homelessness, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.
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Undergraduate: Columbia College, B.A., 1974
Graduate: Columbia University. Public Health, M.D. -- MPH, 1982
Medical School: Columbia Physicians & Surgeons and Public Health, Dr. P.H., 1992
Internship: Albert Einstein, College of Medicine, Psychiatry, 1982 - 1987
Residency: Columbia University, Combined Epi/Psych, 1984 - 1986
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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• Psychiatry
• Epidemiology
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Phone: 212-342-2133
Fax: 212-342-2286
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| Much of Dr. Susser’s research focuses on the developmental origins of health and disease throughout the life course, with a particular focus on neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. He has also taken an active role in using epidemiology to better understand the roles of race, immigration, and social factors in the development of schizophrenia.
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1. Reichenberg A, Gross R, Weiser M, Bresnahan M, Silverman JM, Harlap S, Rabinowitz J, Shulman C, Malespina D, Lubin G, Knobler HY, Davidson M, Susser E. : Advancing paternal age and autism. Archives of General Psychiatry 2006;63: 1026-1032
2. McClellan J, Susser E, King MC. : Maternal famine, de novo mutations and schizophrenia.. Journal of the American Medical Association 2006;296(3): 582-584
3. Brown AS, Begg MD, Gravenstein S, Schaefer CA, Wyatt RJ, Bresnahan M, Babulas V, Susser E: Serologic evidence for prenatal influenza in the etiology of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 2004;61: 774-780
4. Susser E, Schaefer C, Brown A, Begg M, Wyatt RJ: The Design of the Prenatal Determinants of Schizophrenia (PDS). Schizophrenia Bulletin 2000;26(2): 257-273
5. Susser E, Schwartz S, Morabia A, Begg M, Gorman J, Bromet E: Psychiatric Epidemiology:Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders, New York:Oxford University Press , New York, NY, USA, 2006
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