Ellen Frank

Ellen Frank, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and former Director of the Depression and Manic Depression Prevention Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. A world expert in mood disorders and their treatment, she served as Chair of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Panel from 1994-1996 and as a member of the U.S. National Advisory Mental Health Council from 1997-2001. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1999. Dr. Frank has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in journals in psychiatry, psychology and medicine, as well as over 100 books and book chapters.