Owen Mark Wolkowitz

Background

Wolkowitz, Owen Mark was born on October 3, 1952 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Gabriel Wolkowitz and Mandzia (Wroclawska) Wolkowitz-Murik.

Education

Bachelor, New York University, 1974; Doctor of Medicine, U. Maryland., 1979.

Career

Intern in psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1979-1980; resident in psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1980-1982; chief resident in psychiatry, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1983; medical staff fellow, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1983-1986; attending psychiatrist, associate professor, researcher, University of California, San Francisco, 1986-1987; staff psychiatrist, team leader Adult Inpatient Superior vena cava syndrome, University of California, San Francisco, 1991-1995; director, Adult Psychopharmacology Clinic, San Francisco, since 1995; member dean's award committee, University of California, San Francisco, 1986-1993; member student research fellowship committee, University of California, San Francisco, 1986-1987; member residency training objective committee, University of California, San Francisco, 1986-1987; professor psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, since 1997. Journal reviewer Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, Hospital & Cmty. Psychiatry, Journal Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal Nervous & Mental Disease, Journal Neurosci., Journal Psychiat.Rsch., Psychiatry Research, Psychosomatics, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Western Journal Medicine.

Member behavioral science review bd.VA, 1988, 90, research advisory group, 1993. Member of advisory board for clinical investigation Western Journal Medicine, 1993. Member steering committee Napa Eastern State Hospital, 1988-1995.

Achievements

• Owen Mark Wolkowitz has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, psychiatrist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychiatric Association (session chairman annual meeting 1993), Psychiatric Research Society, Society for Biological Psychiatry, American Society Clinical Psychopharmacology, International Society for Psycho-Neuro-Endocrinology (Carl P. Richter prize 1992), Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacoligicum, World Federation Socs. Biological Psychiatry, West Coast College Biological Psychiatry (consensus conference on benzodiazepine regulation since 1993), Northern California Psychiatric Society, Psi Chi.

Interests

• Avocations: tennis, jogging, reading, biking.

Connections

Married Janet Anne Negley, September 9, 1984.

Father:

Gabriel Wolkowitz Wolkowitz-Murik

Mother:

Mandzia (Wroclawska) Wolkowitz-Murik

Spouse:

Janet Anne Negley