S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is a psychiatrist and author. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has published multiple academic books, including Clinical Psychopharmacology (Oxford University Press, 2019), and is author of A First-Rate Madness: Exploring the LInks between Mental Illness and Leadership (Penguin, 2011), a New York Times bestseller. He has published over 200 scientific articles, over 50 book chapters, and is a peer reviewer for many scientific journals, as well as Associate Editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Disclosure: Since 2017, Dr. Ghaemi also has been employed at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA as a director of early drug discovery research in psychiatry. The views expressed here are his alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of any of his employers.