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Positions

• Gary S. Sachs M.D., Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

Education

• M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine

 

Relevant Publications

• Sachs GS. Bipolar disorder clinical synthesis: Where does the evidence lead? Focus. 2007;5:3—13.
• Sachs GS, Nierenberg AA, Calabrese JR, et al. Effectiveness of adjunctive antidepressant Treatment for bipolar depression. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1711—1722.
• Sachs GS. A review of agitation in mental illness: burden of illness and underlying pathology. J Clin Psychiatry. 2006;67(Suppl 10):5—12. Wang PW, Sachs GS, Zarate CA, et al. Overweight and obesity in bipolar disorders. J Psychiatric Res. 2006;40:762—764.
• Zhang H, Wisniewski SR, Bauer MS, Sachs GS, Thase ME. Comparisons of perceived quality of life across clinical states in bipolar disorder: data from the first 2000 Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) participants. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 2006;47:161—168.

 

Contributed Content

• "You Should Be a Psychiatrist"
• A Circle of Colleagues
• A Willingness to Adjust
• Beware of Anti-Mentors
• Check Your Protocol Charts
• Common Sense Can Be Wrong
• Mentors, Goals, and Early Publications
• Organizing STEP-BD
• Recruitment in STEP-BD
• The Dawn of the Psycho-pharm Era
• The Hardest Year of My Life
• Untapped Opportunities
• Work on Preliminary Data