Wagner H. Bridger

Background

Bridger, Wagner H. was born on January 9, 1928 in New York City.

Education

Bachelor, New York University, 1946; Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1950.

Career

Intern, University of Chicago, 1950-1951; assistant resident psychiatry, Bellevue Hospital, 1951-1952; research fellow Pavlovian laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 1952-1953; staff psychiatrist, William Beaumont Army Hospital, 1953-1954; resident psychiatrist, River Crest Sanitarium, New York City, 1954-1955; resident psychiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and Yeshiva U., 1955-1956; research fellow, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1956-1957; research instructor, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1957-1958; instructor, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1958-1960; assistant professor, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1960-1965; associate professor, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1965-1970; director research, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1965-1982; professor, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1970-1982; professor neuroscience, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1974-1982; acting chairman, department psychiatry, Yeshiva U., New York City, 1976-1981; junior psychiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, 1956-1957; assistant attending psychiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, 1958-1965; associate attending psychiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, 1965-1970; attending psychiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, 1970-1982; department chairman psychiatry, professor psychiatry and pharmacology, Medical College Pennsylvania at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, 1982-1993; professor psychiatry, Medical College Pennsylvania at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, since 1993. Visiting scientist Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, 1969-1970. Visiting scholar psychology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994-1995, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.

Consultant Hastings Center-Institute of Society, Ethics, and Life Sciences. Investigator mental health career United States Public Health Service, 1958-1963.

Achievements

• Wagner H. Bridger has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Am Psychiatric Association, American College Neuropsychopharmacology, American College Psychiatrists. Member American Psychpathological Association (council 1960), Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (committee pn psychopathology 1968-1972), Pavlovian Society American (president 1968-1969), Society Psychiatric Research (president 1970-1971), Biological Psychiatry (chairman program committee IV World Congress 1984-1985), Society Biological Psychiatry (president-elect 1987-1988, president 1988-1989).