Dr. Joseph R. Calabrese, MD

Joseph R. Calabrese, M.D. is the recipient of the Bipolar Disorders Research Chair, the director the Bipolar Disorders Research Centre, and the director of the Mood Disorders Program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. His primary research focus is clinical outcomes in under-served populations of bipolar disorder. In addition, in 2008 he initiated a 10-year epidemiologic study focusing on pre-, peri-, and post-deployment risk and resilience factors in a cohort of about 3500 soldiers in the Ohio Army National Guard.  Dr. Calabrese has received five lifetime achievement awards, including the “Nola Maddox Falcone Prize for Affective Disorders” in 2005 and the Gerald L. Klerman Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. In 2014 and 2015 Dr. Calabrese was ranked by Thomson Reuters as being one of the world’s most highly cited researchers based upon the number of his papers ranked in the top 1% of worldwide citations according to Essential Science Indicators. Dr. Calabrese’s Google Scholar H index is 99.