Haim Belmaker
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Prof. Robert Haim Belmaker (Hebrew: חיים בלמקר, born 8 July 1947), is an Israeli psychiatrist who has had major academic positions in Israeli psychiatry since 1974. He had a formative influence on biological directions in Israeli psychiatry.[1] He was Hoffer-Vickar Professor of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel (holding the first named Chair of Psychiatry in Israel) until his retirement and is now Emeritus.
Prof. Robert Haim Belmaker | |
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Born | (1947-07-08)July 8, 1947 US |
Citizenship | Israel |
Education | BA from Harvard College in 1967, MD from Duke Medical School in 1971, Clinical Fellow at US National Institute of Mental Health 1972–1974 |
Awards | Anna Monika Prize for Research in Depression (1983), the Ziskind-Somerfeld Prize for Senior Research in Psychiatry (1993), the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Lilly Research Award (1996), National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Lifetime Achievement Nola Maddox Falcone Prize for research in affective disorder (2000), Research prize of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2004) |
Website | Prof. Robert Haim Belmaker Website |
He was President of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2008–2010, President of the Israel Psychiatry Association 2015–2018, and Organizing Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Congress on Psychiatry and Religion held in Jerusalem, Israel in December 2019[2] He has contributed editorials in the areas of treatment of bipolar disorder in 2007 and then in 2014 on antipsychotic treatment of bipolar disorder, on the potential of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a new frontier (1995) and on the future of randomised clinical trials (2015). An oral history of his research contributions is available at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology video archives[3]