Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH is a psychiatrist and researcher specializing in depression and bipolar disorder. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and a Clinical Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, where he also teaches at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

He was formerly employed at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA, where he led clinical psychiatry research in early drug discovery.

Dr. Ghaemi is the author of several influential books, including the bestseller A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Mental Illness and Leadership, and, most recently, Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice.

He also runs the international clinical education platform The Psychiatry Letter, followed by thousands of clinicians and readers worldwide. He has published over 300 scientific articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of multiple psychiatric journals.