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Brought to you by the Depression Is Real Coalition, The Down & Up Show is dedicated to the reality of depression. Our hosts will talk with some of the world's top experts on depression, as well as people who have been impacted by this illness. The reality of depression is that it is a debilitating and potentially deadly medical condition that affects more than 15 million Americans every year. The other reality of depression is that there is hope. Carolyn B. Robinowitz, M.D., APA President
The recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health career-development award, she is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and has received considerable recognition and numerous awards for her contributions to medical education, psychiatry and health policy, and women in the professions. A clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine and an elected member of the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs, she is in the clinical practice of general, child and adolescent psychiatry as well as a consultant in program development, medical education and evaluation. Dr. Robinowitz is a graduate of Wellesley College and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her pediatric and general psychiatry training took place at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and she completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. |
Carolyn
B. Robinowitz, M.D. is currently president of the American Psychiatric
Association. She is a former dean of the Georgetown University School
of Medicine, where she also served as associate dean for students
and professor of psychiatry. Prior to her work at Georgetown, she
was the senior deputy medical director and chief operating officer
of the American Psychiatric Association. She has held many national
leadership roles including presidencies of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology, the American College of Psychiatrists,
the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the Group for the Advancement
of Psychiatry and the Association for Academic Psychiatry. 
