Joseph Jacob Schildkraut

Background

Schildkraut, Joseph Jacob was born on January 21, 1934 in Brooklyn. Son of Simon and Shirley (Schwartz) Schildkraut.

Education

Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1955; M.D. cum laude, Harvard University, 1959.

Career

Intern medicine, University of California Hospital, San Francisco, 1959-1960; resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1960-1963; director neuropsychopharmacology laboratory, senior psychiatrist, since 1967; research psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1967; consultant, National Institute of Mental Health, 1967-1968; assistant professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1967-1970; associate professor, Harvard Medical School, 1970-1974; professor, Harvard Medical School, since 1974. Director psychiatric chemistry laboratory Massachusetts Mental Health Center, since 1977. Board directors The Medical Foundation, Boston, chair clinical research committee, since 1994.

Board of trustees Mind/Body Medical Institute, Deconess Hospital, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, since 1988, chair science advisory board, 1996.

Membership

Board of directors Medical Foundation, Boston, chair clinical research committee, since 1994. TrusteeMind/Body Medical Institute Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, chair science advisory board, since 1988. Served as surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1963-1965.

Member World Psychiatric Association (secretary section biological psychiatry 1972-1977), Psychiatric Research Society, American College Neuropsychopharmacology, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychosomatic Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Biological Psychiatry, New York Academy Sciences, American Psychopath. Association, American College Psychiatrists, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Neurochemistry, Group Without a Name, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, Society for Neurosci., Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Rose Beilenson, May 22, 1966. Children— Peter Jeremy, Michael John.

Father:

Simon Schildkraut

Mother:

Shirley (Schwartz) Schildkraut

Spouse:

Elizabeth Rose Beilenson