Pamela Sklar | |
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| Born | July 20, 1959 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | November 20, 2017 (aged 58) |
| Alma mater | St. John's College Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience Genomics Psychiatry |
| Institutions | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Pamela Sklar (born July 20, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland - died November 20, 2017, in New York City) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. She was Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, and genetic and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[1] She was also chief of the Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sklar is known for her large-scale gene discovery studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and for making some of the first statistically meaningful gene identifications in both mental illnesses.[2][3]
- ^ Dr. Pamela Sklar, Psychiatrist in New York, NY | US News Doctors Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Studies show no smoking guns, or lots of them, in schizophrenia". BioWorld.
- ^ Wade, Nicholas (31 July 2008). "Gene-Hunters Find Hope and Hurdles in Schizophrenia Studies" – via NYTimes.com.